Sud | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1998.303
People: Nicolas de Staël, French (St. Petersburg 1914 - 1955 Antibes)
Title: Sud
Classification: Paintings
Work Type: painting
Date: 1950
Culture: French
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/232460

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

59.21 x 100.01 cm (23 5/16 x 39 3/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: l.l.: Stael

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: [Knoedler Galleries, New York, New York], sold; to Lois Orswell, 1956, bequest; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1998.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Lois Orswell Collection
Copyright: © Nicolas de Staël / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Accession Year: 1998
Object Number: 1998.303
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Robert Taylor, "Venice Observed, Show in Dramatic Fogg Display", The Boston Herald (May 13, 1956), p. 19, p. 19
Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 266, fig. 64, pp. 132-133, 358, 376

Exhibition History

[Benefit exhibition for the Boston Arts Festival], Margaret Brown Gallery, Boston, 05/08/1956 - 05/29/1956
Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/21/2002 - 02/16/2003

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1998.303: Sud