FRENCH LANGUAGE
"We operate as best we can. And I need to renew myself, to develop, to always function differently from one thing to another, without a priori aesthetics... What matters is that it is right. »
This formula that Nicolas de Staël put down on paper in a letter from January 1955, two months...
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FRENCH LANGUAGE
"We operate as best we can. And I need to renew myself, to develop, to always function differently from one thing to another, without a priori aesthetics... What matters is that it is right. »
This formula that Nicolas de Staël put down on paper in a letter from January 1955, two months before killing himself in Antibes, summarizes the principle that governed his trajectory.
Guided by a powerful instinct and a strong spiritual aspiration, he knew how to transform the blows of adversity into a source of creativity. From the gray-blue skies of Saint Petersburg to the azure perspective of the Mediterranean, Staël walked alone, both shady and sunny, surrounded and alone, proud and compassionate, before passing away like a crazy comet at the end of a journey as luminous as it is tragic.
French language
240 pages
Editions Gallimard
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