Nicolas de Staël. Lumières du nord, lumières du sud. Celtique axis of the world

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Nicolas de Staël. Lumières du nord, lumières du sud. Celtique axis of the worldNicolas de Stal produced, during a dazzling career between 1942 and 1955, one of the freest and most recognized artistic productions of the post war period. After an abstract period, he evolved, at the time of the triumph of abstractions, towards a painting that reconnected with reality, nature and landscape, going beyond the apparent opposition between abstraction and figuration. Landscape, for Stal, is not the picturesque or the faithful description