The exhibition will feature a selection of around a hundred paintings, drawings and sketchbooks from many public and private collections in Switzerland and the wider world. The Fondation Gandur pour l'Art is lending two of the artist's paintings for the occasion. 

The retrospective will be arranged in chronological order, reflecting the successive evolutions of de Staël’s art, from his early figurative works and the dark impasto paintings of the 1940s to the works he painted shortly before his premature death in 1955. Visitors to the exhibition will pass through eleven rooms, each illustrating one or more years of de Staël’s work in strictly chronological order. The presentation will end with an extract from a new documentary by François Lévy-Kuentz and Stéphane Lambert : Nicolas de Staël, la peinture à vif.