Abstract Composition

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Nicolas de Staël

Title

Abstract Composition

Place

France (Artist's nationality:)

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1945

Medium

Brush and black ink and gray wash, on cream laid paper

Inscriptions

Signed recto, lower left, in brush and gray wash: "Staël"; inscribed verso, lower right, in graphite: "p p linron crem lindin lever cui M.3 / 261/4 x 44" [?]; lower right, in pen and blue ink: "DS"

Dimensions

44.8 × 27.6 cm (17 11/16 × 10 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection

Reference Number

1991.709

Copyright

© 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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