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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 21, 2023 | Sotheby's | London | Modern British & Irish Art Evening Auction | 8 | $****** - ****** | Very Good | (White Relief) | ||
Jun 22, 1993 | Christie's | London | Impressionist & Modern Paintings,Watercolours & Sculpture - Part I | 231 | $****** - ****** | Very Good | (White Relief) |
paintings
19.5 x 25 cm (7.68 x 9.84 in)
oil on board with relief
signed Ben Nicholson and dated 1934 (on the backboard)
John Hilton
John Piper
His sale, Christie"s London, 22 June 1993, lot 231, where acquired by the present owner
Oxford, Museum of Modern Art, The Story of the Artists" International Association 1933 - 1953 , 1983, no. 197
Cambridge, Kettle"s Yard Gallery, Circle: Constructive Art in Britain 1934-40, 1982, no. 26
Norbert Lynton, Ben Nicholson , Phaidon Press Ltd, London, 1993, no. 128, illustrated p. 144
Ben Nicholson
1894 - 1982
1934 (White Relief)
signed Ben Nicholson and dated 1934 (on the backboard)
oil on board with relief
unframed (including backboard): 19.5 by 25cm.; 7½ by 9¾in.
Executed in 1934.
We are grateful to Rachel Smith for her kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.
A catalogue raisonné of Ben Nicholson"s paintings and reliefs is currently being prepared, and the authors encourage owners to be in touch. Please write to Rachel Smith, c/o Sotheby"s Modern & Postwar British Art, Sotheby"s, 34-35 New Bond Street, London, W1A 2AA or email [email protected] .
