Guy Dumur on Nicolas de Staël, the painter who spent his career walking the line between abstraction and landscape and never settled it. The jacket gives the title as nothing but the artist's brushed signature across a cream panel, with an impasto grid in whites, greys, ochres and blues wrapping round the back.
Jacket moderately worn: the cream panel is tanned and lightly soiled, with rubbing and small chips along the top edge, a creased corner, and light abrasion.
