ID 1388298
Lot 2 | BEN NICHOLSON, O.M. (1894-1982)
Estimate value
£ 80 000 – 120 000
c. 1925 (Jamaïque)
signed ‘Ben Nicholson’ (on the canvas overlap)
oil on canvas, laid on board, in the artist’s frame
13 x 9 ½ in. (32.8 x 24.1 cm.)
Painted circa 1925.
Provenance
Wilfrid Roberts, the artist's brother-in-law, and by descent.
Literature
E. Birne, ‘At Kettle’s Yard: Ben and Winifred Nicholson’, London Review of Books, Vol. 36, No. 8, 17 April 2014.
Exhibited
Cambridge, Kettle’s Yard, on long term loan 2002 - 2005.
Leeds, Art Gallery, Art and Life: Ben Nicholson, Winifred Nicholson, Christopher Wood, Alfred Wallis & William Staite Murray, 1920-1931, October 2013 - January 2014, p. 72, exhibition not numbered, illustrated: this exhibition travelled to Cambridge, Kettle's Yard, February - May 2014; and London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, June - September 2014.
Further Details
We are very grateful to Rachel Smith and Lee Beard for their assistance in cataloguing this lot.
| Artist: | Ben Nicholson (1894 - 1982) |
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| Art style: | Modern art |
| Genre: | Still life |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Artist: | Ben Nicholson (1894 - 1982) |
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| Art style: | Modern art |
| Genre: | Still life |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Address of auction |
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