ID: 700000331 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700000331	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Rue Gauguet (painting (visual work); Nicolas de Staël (Russian (worked in France), 1914–1955); 1949; Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts, ...; 57.385; )

Note: One of de Staël’s largest works, Rue Gauguet evolved over two years. Named after the street where the artist had his studio, the work, shot through with broad strokes of color, is built up of many layers of heavily manipulated paint.

Titles:

Rue Gauguet (preferred,C,U,undetermined,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

painting (visual work) [300033618] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

paintings (preferred)

Creation Date: 1949

Creator Display:

Nicolas de Staël (Russian (worked in France), 1914–1955) [preferred,VP]

painter Staël, Nicolas de (French painter and draftsman, 1914-1955) Extent: execution [500026376]

Locations:

Current: Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts, United States) [500305147] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 57.385

Credit Line: Tompkins Collection—Arthur Gordon Tompkins Fund

Display Materials: Oil on plywood panel

	oil paint (paint) [300015050]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>)

	plywood [300012849]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, plant material, <wood and wood by product>, <wood by product>)

Dimensions: 199.4 x 240.3 cm (78 1/2 x 94 5/8 in.)

General Subject:

nonrepresentational art (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	geometry [300054529]
	.....(Activities Facet, Disciplines (hierarchy name), disciplines (concept), <science and related disciplines>, science (modern discipline), mathematics) (AAT)

	abstraction [300056508]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), <concepts in the arts and humanities>, artistic concepts, forms of expression (artistic concept), <forms of expression for visual arts>) (AAT)

Copyright: © 2011 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris.

Provenance: 1950, sold by the artist to Theodore Schempp, New York; 1957, sold by Schempp to the MFA. (Accession date: May 9, 1957)

Inscriptions: Lower left: Stael; Reverse: Nicolas / de / Stael / 1949

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Rue Gauguet	........ [VP]
	........ Museum of Fine Arts, Boston [online] (2003-)

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Museum of Fine Arts, Boston [online] (2003-) accessed 7 March 2018