"Nature morte" photographique originale de l'atelier de Nicolas de Staël

Original view of Nicolas de Staël's atelier
Paris n.d. (circa 1954), 24,2x31,1cm, one leaf.
Original silver print photograph of Nicolas de Staël's atelier by Denise Colomb.
Traces of folds, small pieces of paper missing in the lower left corner.
Splendid "still life" in large format of the painter's Parisian atelier rue Gauguet, taken one year before his death. His masterpieces are jumbled together with firewood and numerous pots of paint.
The photograph was taken by Denise Colomb, great portraitist of the 20th century, known for her portraits of Antonin Artaud, Giacometti, Picasso, Soulages and Miro in their studio.
“It is said that his workshop was the cave of a palaeontological potter. With sediment, layers of paleo... A crucible, a large material well, riddled with pigments, paintbrushes, pots of plastered trowels, buckets, rags. In a strong smell of turpentine. A workshop covered, soiled, stained with dirt, with masonry clay. Its wingspan, its strength, its topsail height springs into this crater of Vesuvius. Slightly disoriented, he leans, he pours. To paint, for him, is to be prey to vertigo, to unpredictable, accidental, chance junctions. (Patrick Grainville, Les Yeux de Milos).