Nicolas de Staël: career timeline
French · 1914–1955 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 18 of 21 lots (86% of works) have a usable creation date; the others are listed at the end by the decade they were sold. Each work is shown once, even when it sold more than once.
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Enter what you know about a work by Nicolas de Staël to see the closest recorded works from the same period, with their auction results. These are past records only, not a valuation: condition, authenticity, provenance and the market all change what a work brings. For an auction estimate of your work, get a free auction estimate.
1940s 5 works
- Sold
- 3 of 5
- Median
- $75.4kSign up
- Average
- $124kSign up
- Typical size
- 20 × 12.5 in (50 × 31 cm)
- Mediums
- Oil (2), Drawing (2), Lithograph (1)
- Subjects
- Figures & portraits (1)
1945 Peinture$75.4kSign up
1945 FigureUnsold
1945 ComposizioneResult not published
1946 Un tableau arraché$293kSign up
1949 Sans titre (Untitled) (W. 90)$2.1kSign up
1950s 13 works
- Sold
- 9 of 13
- Median
- $281kSign up
- Average
- $790kSign up
- Typical size
- 21.5 × 29 in (55 × 73 cm)
- Mediums
- Oil (4), Other (3), Lithograph (2)
- Subjects
- Abstract (2), Sea & coast (2), Flowers & still life (2)
1950 Composition$281kSign up
1951 Sans titreUnsold
1952 Personnages au bord de la mer$2.4MSign up
1952 Mediterranée$4.6kSign up
1952 Sans titre$3.3kSign up
1952 Bouteilles en brun, ocre et rose (Bouteilles: Nature morte)Unsold
1952 Honfleur$1.5MSign up
1952 Mediterranee$2.8kSign up
1952 Mediteranée$4.3kSign up
1953 Fleurs sur fond rouge$1.4MSign up
1953 Composition sur fond vertUnsold
1954 Marine$1.6MSign up
Show 1 more (1950s)
1954 Tombeau d'Hercules Seghers: Bateaux IIResult not published
Creation date not recorded
3 works have no cataloged or signed date. They are grouped here by the decade they were last sold, which says nothing about when they were made.
Undated, sold in the 2000s 1 work
sold 2005 Mediterranee$1.3kSign up
Undated, sold in the 2020s 2 works
- Sold
- 1 of 2
- Median
- $3.7kSign up
- Average
- $3.7kSign up
- Typical size
- —
- Mediums
- Print (other) (1), Drawing (1)
- Subjects
- —
sold 2023 WatercolorsUnsold
sold 2023 Untitled$3.7kSign up
Medians and averages count sold works only (each work's most recent sale), in US dollars at the sale-date rate. Works cataloged as “attributed to”, “circle of” or similar are left out. All Nicolas de Staël auction results →