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The Waterfalls,Pistil Mawddach St.George and the Dragon Oradea Interior of the Portuguese Synagogue in The Burghers of Calais -25- A Young girl in a state of undress,weari Sappho architectural abstraction Christ and St.John with Angels The Fall of the Rebellious Angels -detai Saint Jerome in his Study -nn03- The Repose of Venus Palmspringsnorth Helel Allingham,RWS Boonville Eldara Sunset : Wheat fields Near Arles The Little Peasant Hampstead Heath with London in the dista Indianheadpark Thatcher Nativity The Coronation of the Virgin vhgf Tete de la grande odalisque couchee Two Horses,Red and Blue -34- Farm Courtyard in Normandy Den Helder The Cascatelli ivoli, Looking Towards Ro Desarc The Countrywoman sat on the Lawn Equestrian Portrait of Sir John Hawkwood Rembrandt Peale The Noise of the Street Enters the House Portrait of Catharina Cornaro, Queen of The Taking of the Snow Girolamo Romanino Water Glass and Jug my The Blue Boat -44- Woman Drinking with a Sleeping Soldier |
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Nicolas de Stael:
Russian Painter.1914-1955
was a painter known for his use of a thick impasto and his highly abstract landscape painting. He also worked with collage, illustration and textiles Nocolas de Stael was born in the family of a Russian Lieutenant General, Baron Vladimir Stael von Holstein, (a member of the Stael von Holstein family, and the last Commandant of the Peter and Paul Fortress) and his wife, Olga Sakhanskaya. De Stael's family was forced to emigrate to Poland in 1919 because of the Russian Revolution; Both, his father and stepmother, would die in Poland and the orphaned Nicolas de Stael would be sent with his older sister Marina to Brussels to live with a Russian family (1922). He eventually studied art at the Brussels Acad??mie royale des beaux-arts (1932). In the 1930s, he travelled throughout Europe, lived in Paris (1934) and in Morocco (1936) (where he first met his companion Jeannine Guillou, also a painter and who would appear in some of his paintings from 1941-1942) and Algeria. In 1936 he had his first exhibition of Byzantine style icons and watercolors at the Galerie Dietrich et Cie, Brussels. He joined the French Foreign Legion in 1939 and was demobilized in 1941.
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