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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 23, 2017 | Christie's | London | Modern British & Irish Art Evening Sale | 11 | $****** - ****** | 1933 (Bugatti 5 litres) | |||
Jun 23, 1997 | Christie's | London | Impressionist & Modern Paintings, Watercolours & Sculpture (Part I | 37 | $****** - ****** | 1933 (Bugatti 5 litres) |
paintings
45.7 x 50.8 cm (18 x 20 in)
oil, charcoal and collage of playing cards, newspaper, silver paper and baking paper on canvas stretched over panel
signed and dated 'Ben Nicholson 1933' (on the reverse of the panel), signed and dated again 'Ben Nicholson 1933' (on the backboard)
with Alex. Reid & Lefevre, London, as 'Composition'.
Sir Michael Sadler, K.C.S.I, Oxford, by whom probably purchased from the above in 1933.
His sale; Christie's, 25 May 1945, lot 184.
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, London, 23 June 1997, lot 37.
with Crane Kalman Gallery, London, where purchased by the present owner, June 1997.
London, Alex. Reid & Lefevre, Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, October - November 1933, no. 47, as 'Bugatti 5 litres'.
Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Arp, Bissier, Nicholson, Tobey, October - December 1963, no. 76, as 'Composition Bugatti 5 Litres'.
London, Tate Gallery, Ben Nicholson, October 1993 - January 1994, no. 40: this exhibition travelled to St. Etienne, Musee d'Art Moderne, February - April 1994.
Basel, Art/30, Collage: the pasted-paper revolution, June 1999, no. 21: this exhibition travelled to London, Crane Kalman Gallery, June - September 1999.
Hayama, British Council, The Museum of Modern Art, Ben Nicholson, February - March 2004, no. 21: this exhibition travelled to Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, April - May 2004; and Tokyo, Tokyo Station Gallery, May - July 2004.
Exhibition catalogue, Arp, Bissier, Nicholson, Tobey, Basel, Galerie Beyeler, 1963, n.p., no. 76, as 'Composition Bugatti 5 Litres'.
J. Lewison, exhibition catalogue, Ben Nicholson, London, Tate Gallery, 1993, pp. 133, 214, no. 40, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Ben Nicholson, Hayama, British Council, The Museum of Modern Art, 2004, pp. 74-75, no. 21, illustrated.
1933 ()
signed and dated 'Ben Nicholson 1933' (on the reverse of the panel), signed and dated again 'Ben Nicholson 1933' (on the backboard)
oil, charcoal and collage of playing cards, newspaper, silver paper and baking paper on canvas stretched over panel
18 x 20 in. (45.7 x 50.8 cm.)
