THE "SEAS" I REALLY LOVE
Serpent Tree Many years ago when I began taking an interest in art, I used to confuse Niki Saint Phalle and Nicolas de Stäel. In the late 90's when I was in Basel, this was straightened out when I first visited the Foundation Jean Tinguely and discovered that that Jean and Niki were married. It would be difficult for me two confuse the two artists ever again. To the extent I might add, that I get rather tired of seeing so many of her sculptures, not to mention the copies. Figures at the seaside 1952 Nicolas de Stäel was no longer a stranger to me. I had seen quite a few of his paintings in different modern art museums around the world, and liked what I saw. There was something magic about his abstraction which I compared to boxes vividly coloured thick with oils. A few months ago I discovered that there was a retrospective of his work in Le Havre. (After Dunkerque, Le Havre was not a favorite port on my Mother's list!). On the coast and not far