Video on Nicolas de Stael

Nicolas de Stael, the subject of my last post here, had a nice phrase to describe his approach to painting, wavering between abstraction and figuration: "l'entre deux - between the two." I suspect that phrase is going to come in handy for me at some point.

I also like this quote from de Stael: "All my life, I had a need to think painting, to paint in order to liberate myself from all the impressions, all the feelings, and all the anxieties of which the only solution I know is painting." I get that too.

Turns out there's an exhibition of about a dozen of Stael's late paintings at the Mitchell, Innes & Nash gallery in Manhattan this month.

One of the blog's readers sent me a link to a short video of the show's curator interviewing a collector and friend of the de Stael family.