There are men who transcend misfortune, others who never overcome their initial wounds, and there is Nicolas de Staël, an accursed artist, excoriated from modern art who went so far as to sacrifice his life at the risk of his art, committing the irreparable at the age of 41. Through the selection of 220 paintings, drawings, engravings and notebooks, the Paris Museum of Modern Art paints the portrait of a painter on the edge, having destroyed as many works as he created. The exhibition, developed around his explorations in abstraction, focuses on the methodical and feverish work of a hard worker whose career, spread over only fifteen years, was as brief as it was intense.

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