ID 1472851
Lot 23 | BEN NICHOLSON, O.M. (1894-1982)
Estimate value
£ 250 000 – 350 000
Le Petit Provençal
signed and dated 'Ben Nicholson 1933' (on the reverse)
oil, collage and pencil on canvas
18 ¾ x 16 ¾ in. (47.6 x 42.6 cm.)
Painted in 1933.
Provenance
with Galerie d'Art Moderne, Zürich, where purchased by Dr Georg and Josi Guggenheim in February 1957.
Their sale; Christie's, London, 10 February 2005, lot 528.
with Richard Green, London, where purchased by the present owner.
Exhibited
Perth, Art Gallery of Western Australia, British Council, Eleven Contemporary British Artists, January 1949, no. 22: this exhibition travelled to Adelaide, Art Gallery of South Australia, February; Melbourne, Royal Exhibition Building, March; Ballarat, May; Bendigo, May; Castlemaine, May; Victoria, Geelong Art Gallery, May; Hobart; Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, June; Launceston, Queen Victoria Art Gallery, June; and Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, July.
Basel, Galeria d'Art Moderne, Collages 1912-1956, December 1956 - January 1957: this exhibition travelled to Zürich, Club Bel Etage, January - February, catalogue not traced.
Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Ben Nicholson, February - April 1959, no. 11: this exhibition travelled to Mannheim, Städtische Kunsthalle, April - May.
Bern, Kunsthalle Bern, Ben Nicholson, May - July 1961, no. 27.
Further Details
We are very grateful to Rachel Smith and Lee Beard for their assistance in cataloguing this lot.
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