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SIR WILLIAM NICHOLSON (1872-1949)

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ID 922544
Lot 41 | SIR WILLIAM NICHOLSON (1872-1949)
SIR WILLIAM NICHOLSON (1872-1949)

Sunflowers

signed 'Nicholson.' (lower right), signed with initials and inscribed 'Sunflowers/WN' (on the reverse)

oil on panel

16 1/4 x 13 in. (41.2 x 33.1 cm.)

Painted circa 1933.





Provenance

with Barbizon House, London.

William Witherle Lawrence, by 1948.

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 13 July 1964, lot 372, as 'Yellow Sunflowers'.

with Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London, where purchased by Martin Halperin in November 1965, and by descent.

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 16 November 2011, lot 15.

with Richard Green, London, where purchased by the present owner.



Literature

R. Nichols, William Nicholson: Penguin Modern Painters Series, Harmondsworth, 1948, pl. 23.

L. Browse, William Nicholson, London, 1956, p. 95, no. 389, dated 'circa 1928'.

P. Reed, William Nicholson: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, London and New Haven, 2011, p. 538, no. 700, illustrated.

Exhibition catalogue, Van Gogh and Britain, London, Tate Britain, 2019, pp. 160-161, exhibition not numbered.



Exhibited

London, C.E.M.A. Exhibition, Pall Mall and Scottish Investment Co. Ltd., Flower Paintings, early 1940s, no. 15, catalogue not traced.

London, Roland Browse & Delbanco, William Nicholson: Centenary Exhibition, April - May 1972, no. 18.

London, Tate Britain, Van Gogh and Britain, March - August 2019, exhibition not numbered.



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Artist:William Nicholson (1872 - 1949)
Applied technique:Oil on panel
Art style:Modern art
Genre:Still life
Category:Painting
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