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# Nicolas de Staël, French abstract painter of Russian origin and son of a Russian general
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/futbolisty-khudozhnik-nikolia-de-stal-1952-god/
- Published: 2025-06-02T07:30:34.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T18:39:59.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Art, People

Footballers, by the artist Nicolas de Staël, 1952.

Nikolai Vladimirovich Stael von Holstein, a French abstract painter of Russian origin, the son of a general in the Russian army. He is better known under the name of Nicolas de Staël

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