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WINIFRED NICHOLSON (1893-1981)

Lot 169
20.03.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1388507
Lot 169 | WINIFRED NICHOLSON (1893-1981)
Estimate value
£ 20 000 – 30 000
WINIFRED NICHOLSON (1893-1981)
Lilies in Moonlight
signed and dated 'Winifred Nicholson 1930' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
25 x 30 in. (63.5 x 76.2 cm.)
Painted in 1930.
There is an abstract composition on the reverse by the same hand.




Provenance

Purchased by a private collector at the 1930 exhibition.
Purchased by the Toledo Museum of Art at the 1950 exhibition.
Their sale; Sotheby's, London, 4 June 2003, lot 26, as 'Lilies and Moonlight'.
with Richard Green, London, where purchased by the present owner in December 2004.



Literature

P.G. Konody, 'Berthe Morisot and Winifred Nicholson', The Observer, 30 March 1930.
O. Wittmann (intro.), The Toledo Museum of Art: European Paintings, Toledo, 1976, p. 394, illustrated, as 'Lilies and Moonlight'.



Exhibited

London, Leicester Galleries, An Exhibition of Paintings by Winifred Nicholson, March - April 1930, no. 11.
London, Redfern Gallery, Summer Exhibition, June - September 1950, no. 16, as 'Lilies and Moonlight'.
Michigan, Albion College, The Eye Looks Inward and Outward, 1965, catalogue not traced.



Further details

We are very grateful to Jovan Nicholson for his assistance in cataloguing this lot.
Art style:Modern art
Genre:Still life
Auction house category:Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings
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