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Marcel Mouly
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Poèmes,
1952
by Nicolas de Staël
Print : woodcut 37 x 22.8 x 2 cm 14.6 x 9 x 0.8 inch
$27,749
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Artwork location: France
Nicolas de Staël & René Char
Poèmes. Paris, [Aux Dépends de l'Artiste], 1952.
Artist's book including poems by René Char, taken from the collection The Sprayed Poem and 15 original printed works by Nicolas de Staël (14 woodcuts and a color lithograph for shirt).
Edition of 120 copies. One of the 90s on large Arches vellum, n ° 85 signed in felt-tip pen by Char and Nicolas de Staël in colophon.
René Char and Nicolas de Staël met at Georges and Marguerite Duthuit's at the beginning of 1951: very quickly, the idea was born of a collaboration around a book. For this first illustrated book, de Staël creates his woods without knowing the texts that will accompany them. The artist is first of all very impressed by the poet, and writes to Jacques Dubourg: "On the whole, this man is made of dynamite whose explosions would be tanned with calm softness. All the pundits rush to him without restraint, Braque alone has discretion. He has Matisse dragged around who sends him sixty watercolors which he does not like, chooses from a bundle of more than two hundred drawings by Miró and so on [...] But I absolutely cannot succeed that is, and cannot ask him frankly what he is going to do. Twenty poems or sixty pages of prose, on painting in general or on my apple in particular "(In the poet's studio, p. 651). He began to work his wood in July 1951: "I hit it as quickly as possible with 120 gouges".
René Char, recovering in Briançon, saw the creation through the letters of his friend: "I see our book from here between rock and stars with lucid and purified eyes". Seeing the engravings, he associates with each of them a piece from his collection The Pulverized Poem, which had already been the subject of a publication, thus sacrificing nothing to his habit which consisted, for his large illustrated books, to constitute them from old poems, which he modified or assembled differently.
Nicolas de Staël gives his opinion on the paper to be used: "the whole book will be on Arches, the suites on old Japan and an English vellum which keeps a shine when drying but sets the black on perfectly". Nicolas de Staël is worried, because it is his first "luxury book"; more experienced on the question, his friend reassures him: "you did a very impressive real work there". The book was completed in November 1951. The work, built on the black-white opposition, which we find not only in the woods but also in the architecture of the book, where illustration and text are never face to face , seems to be unanimously appreciated. It is thus one of the rare books "entirely assumed" by its illustrator, de Staël, papers, characters, woodwind printing, case, all under his own choice.
“We must give painting lovers a taste for painter's books. Made from start to finish by a painter. No more decoration. These were the words of Nicolas de Staël (1913-1955) to the merchant Théodore Schempp, shortly after the publication of Poèmes.
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Poèmes. Paris, [Aux Dépends de l'Artiste], 1952.
Artist's book including poems by René Char, taken from the collection The Sprayed Poem and 15 original printed works by Nicolas de Staël (14 woodcuts and a color lithograph for shirt).
Edition of 120 copies. One of the 90s on large Arches vellum, n ° 85 signed in felt-tip pen by Char and Nicolas de Staël in colophon.
René Char and Nicolas de Staël met at Georges and Marguerite Duthuit's at the beginning of 1951: very quickly, the idea was born of a collaboration around a book. For this first illustrated book, de Staël creates his woods without knowing the texts that will accompany them. The artist is first of all very impressed by the poet, and writes to Jacques Dubourg: "On the whole, this man is made of dynamite whose explosions would be tanned with calm softness. All the pundits rush to him without restraint, Braque alone has discretion. He has Matisse dragged around who sends him sixty watercolors which he does not like, chooses from a bundle of more than two hundred drawings by Miró and so on [...] But I absolutely cannot succeed that is, and cannot ask him frankly what he is going to do. Twenty poems or sixty pages of prose, on painting in general or on my apple in particular "(In the poet's studio, p. 651). He began to work his wood in July 1951: "I hit it as quickly as possible with 120 gouges".
René Char, recovering in Briançon, saw the creation through the letters of his friend: "I see our book from here between rock and stars with lucid and purified eyes". Seeing the engravings, he associates with each of them a piece from his collection The Pulverized Poem, which had already been the subject of a publication, thus sacrificing nothing to his habit which consisted, for his large illustrated books, to constitute them from old poems, which he modified or assembled differently.
Nicolas de Staël gives his opinion on the paper to be used: "the whole book will be on Arches, the suites on old Japan and an English vellum which keeps a shine when drying but sets the black on perfectly". Nicolas de Staël is worried, because it is his first "luxury book"; more experienced on the question, his friend reassures him: "you did a very impressive real work there". The book was completed in November 1951. The work, built on the black-white opposition, which we find not only in the woods but also in the architecture of the book, where illustration and text are never face to face , seems to be unanimously appreciated. It is thus one of the rare books "entirely assumed" by its illustrator, de Staël, papers, characters, woodwind printing, case, all under his own choice.
“We must give painting lovers a taste for painter's books. Made from start to finish by a painter. No more decoration. These were the words of Nicolas de Staël (1913-1955) to the merchant Théodore Schempp, shortly after the publication of Poèmes.
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Nicolas de Staël is a Russian artist, born in 1914 and passed away in 1955 at the age of 41. A noble background, he was exiled with them until 1917 due to the Bolshevik revolution.His parents died in Poland two years later. He moved to Belgium with his adoptive family, the latter encouraged him to undertake engineering studies. But once he graduated, he turned towards painting and joined the Fine Arts school in Brussels in 1933.
His career as a painter was short but rich. The artist evolved constantly and refused to join a specific current and even make a choice between abstraction and figuration. "I am not against abstract or figurative painting. A painting needs to be abstract and figurative at the same time. Abstract as a wall, figurative as a representation of space".
His initial career was marked with dark colors, whereas the following paintings were bright. Various themes appear in his creations, an excuse to explore nude or even landscapes.
During several years, Nicolas de Staël had financial difficulties with his bank. He became successful soon after his death: several American museums exhibit his work like the Houston Fine Arts Museum in Texas. The artist's painting went through several prestigious retrospective in France at the Grand Palais in 1981 and Centre Pompidou in 2003.
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His career as a painter was short but rich. The artist evolved constantly and refused to join a specific current and even make a choice between abstraction and figuration. "I am not against abstract or figurative painting. A painting needs to be abstract and figurative at the same time. Abstract as a wall, figurative as a representation of space".
His initial career was marked with dark colors, whereas the following paintings were bright. Various themes appear in his creations, an excuse to explore nude or even landscapes.
During several years, Nicolas de Staël had financial difficulties with his bank. He became successful soon after his death: several American museums exhibit his work like the Houston Fine Arts Museum in Texas. The artist's painting went through several prestigious retrospective in France at the Grand Palais in 1981 and Centre Pompidou in 2003.
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