ID 1472856 
Lot 7  | BEN NICHOLSON, O.M. (1894-1982)
Estimate value
£ 800 000 – 1 200 000 
December 1942 - April 1944 (abstract painting)
signed and dated twice 'Ben/Nicholson/1942/-44' and inscribed with extensive colour notes (on the canvas overlap)
oil on canvas stretched over board
46 x 72 in. (116.8 x 181.9 cm.)
Painted in 1942-44.
Provenance
Ashley Havinden, 1945.
Acquired from the above by James Kirkman and Lewis Kaplin in 1973.
with Waddington Galleries, London, where purchased by Thomas G. Newman in 1978.
Foundation Capa, 1981.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 14 November 1984, lot 73, where purchased by the present owner.
Exhibited
London, Lefevre Gallery, Ben Nicholson: Paintings and Reliefs 1939-1945, October 1945, no. 36.
London, Waddington and Tooth Galleries, 1976, catalogue not traced.
Buffalo, New York, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Ben Nicholson: Fifty Years of His Art, October - November 1978, p. 80, no. 36, illustrated: this exhibition travelled to Washington D.C., Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, December 1978 - February 1979; and New York, The Brooklyn Museum, March - May 1979.
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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| Applied technique: | Oil, Painted | 
| Art style: | Modern art | 
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings | 
| Artist: | Ben Nicholson (1894 - 1982) | 
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| Applied technique: | Oil, Painted | 
| Art style: | Modern art | 
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings | 
| Address of auction | CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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