ID 1175022
Lot 19 | BEN NICHOLSON, O.M. (1894-1982)
Estimate value
£ 700 000 – 1 000 000
1935 (painting)
signed and dated 'Ben Nicholson 1935' (on the canvas overlap)
oil on canvas
24 ¾ x 36 ¾ in. (62.8 x 93.3 cm.)
Painted in 1935.
Provenance
Sir Leslie and Lady Martin.
with Waddington Galleries, London.
with Annely Juda Fine Art, London, 1976.
CHASA Holdings (Jersey) Ltd., 1976.
with Annely Juda Fine Art, London, 1979.
with Waddington Galleries, London, 1979.
with Annely Juda Fine Art, London, 1983.
Private collection, Hamburg.
with Annely Juda Fine Art, London, where purchased by the previous owner in 2010.
Their sale; Sotheby's, London, 29 June 2021, lot 31, where purchased by the present owner.
Literature
J.L. Martin and S. Speight, The Flat Book, London, 1939, n.p., no. 296, illustrated.
H. Read (intro.), Ben Nicholson: Paintings, Reliefs, Drawings, Vol. 1, London, 1948, p. 8, pl. 81.
Exhibition catalogue, Abstraction-Création 1931-1936, Münster, Westfalisches Landemuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, 1978, p. 219, pl. 1.
N. Lynton, Ben Nicholson, London, 1993, p. 152, pl. 137.
Exhibited
Münster, Westfälisches Landemuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Abstraction-Création 1931-1936, April - June 1978, exhibition not numbered: this exhibition travelled to Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Villa de Paris, June - September 1978.
London, Annely Juda Fine Art, Line & Circle, February - March 2013, catalogue not traced.
| Artist: | Ben Nicholson (1894 - 1982) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Artist: | Ben Nicholson (1894 - 1982) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
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