1 Galerie de Stael, for example, sold seventeen works, mainly nineteenth-century watercolours and architectural drawings.

2 Madame de Stael had died a year previously.

3 Madame de Stael says that only the people who can play with children are able to educate them.

4 Madam Stael came from a aristocratic family so that she was rich in cultivated manners and culture.

5 Madame de Stael a French writer of the Napoleonic period , was renowned for her cutting tongue.

6 Max Thor, was born in France. His prominent influences are Paul Cezanne, Jacques Villon and Nicolas de STAEL whose retrospective in 1955, in the Museum of Modern Arts, was a revelation.