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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 10, 2015 | Sotheby's | London | Contemporary Art Evening Auction | 17 | $****** - ****** | FOOTBALLEURS |
paintings
65 x 81 cm (25.59 x 31.89 in)
oil on canvas
signed; signed and dated 1952 on the reverse
Jacques Dubourg, Paris
Private Collection, Paris
Private Collection, Switzerland
Galerie Beyeler, Basel
Collection Daniel Malingue, Paris
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner
Berne, Kunsthalle Bern, Nicolas de Staël, 1957, n.p., no. 43
Kassel, Museum Fridericianum, Documenta II, Kunst nach 1945, 1959, p. 380, no. 18, illustrated
Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft Hannover; and Hamburg, Kunstverein Hamburg, Nicolas de Staël, 1959-60, n.p., no. 32
Turin, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Pittori d’oggi Francia-Italia, 1961, n.p., no. 240
Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Fondation Maeght, Dix Ans d’Art Vivant 1945-55, 1966, n.p, no. 139
Geneva, Galerie Motte, Nicolas de Staël: 1914-1955, Peintures et Dessins, 1967, n.p., no. 19
Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Fondation Maeght, Staël, 1972, p. 92, no. 45, illustrated
Zurich, Galerie Nathan, Nicolas de Staël: Gemälde und Zeichnungen, 1976-77, n.p., no. 12, illustrated
Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais; and London, Tate Gallery, Nicolas de Staël: Rétrospective, 1981, p. 78, no. 58, illustrated
Geneva, Galerie Daniel Malingue, Staël: Priorité Peinture, 1992, n.p., no. 8, illustrated in colour
Paris, Galerie Daniel Malingue, Hommage à Nicolas de Staël, 1992
Tokyo, Tobu Museum of Art; Kamakura, Museum of Modern Art; and Hiroshima, Museum of Art, Nicolas de Staël: 1944-1955, 1993, p. 69, no. 18, illustrated in colour
Paris, Galerie Daniel Malingue, Maîtres Impressionistes et Modernes, 1994, n.p., no. 20, illustrated in colour
Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Nicolas de Staël: Retrospektive, 1994, p. 85, no. 52, illustrated in colour
Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Nicolas de Staël, 1995, p. 69, no. 18, illustrated in colour
Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Nicolas de Staël, 2003, p. 138, no. 110, illustrated in colour
Linz, Kentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Paris 1945-1965: Metropole der Kunst, Jahrzehnte des Aufbruchs, Malerei – Plastik – Grafik – Fotografie, 2003-04, p. 267, illustrated in colour
Barcelona, Fundación Caixa Catalunya, Nicolas de Staël : 1914-1955, 2007, p. 87, illustrated in colour
Kristian Sotriffer, ‘Gibt es eine abendländische Kalligraphie’, Alte und Moderne Kunst, Vienna, Vol. 5, No. 3, March 1960, p. 17, no. 4, illustrated
Jacques Dubourg and Françoise de Staël, Ed., Nicolas de Staël: Lettres, Catalogue Raisonné des Peintures, Paris 1968, p. 197, no. 396, illustrated
André Chastel, Staël: l'artiste et l'oeuvre, Paris 1972, p. 92, no. 45, illustrated
Agnès Cazenave, ‘Nicolas de Staël’, La Vie, 19 June 1981, pp. 48-49, illustrated in colour
René Micha, ‘Trois Maîtres: Dufy et de Staël à Paris; Kokoschka à Londres’, Art International, Lugano, No. 9-10, August 1981, p. 158, illustrated in colour
Michael Brenson, ‘Report from Paris, de Staël in Retrospect’, Art in America, Vol. 69, No. 10, December 1981, p. 39, illustrated in colour
Wolfgang Sauré, ‘Pariser Kunstereignisse Paris – Paris 1937-1957; Nicolas de Staël’, Das Kunstwerk, Stuttgart, Vol. 34, No. 5, 1981, p. 73, illustrated
Françoise de Staël, Ed., Nicolas de Staël: Catalogue Raisonné de l’Oeuvre Peint, Neuchâtel 1997, p. 342, no. 400, illustrated in colour
