Property from the Collection of Sir Antony and Lady Hornby
Ben Nicholson
1944 (Cornish Port)
Auction Closed
November 21, 05:49 PM GMT
Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Ben Nicholson
1894 - 1982
1944 (Cornish Port)
signed Ben Nicholson, titled, dated 1944, and inscribed (on the backboard)
oil and pencil on board
unframed (image): 22 by 28cm.; 8½ by 11in.
framed: 40.5 by 46.5cm.; 16 by 18¼in.
Executed in 1944.
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 info@bncr.org.uk.
Lefevre Galleries, London, where acquired by H.P. Mackham
Redfern Galleries, London, where acquired by Captain de Pass, R.N., 8 June 1953
Crane Kalman Gallery, London, where acquired by Sir Antony and Lady Hornby in January 1968 and thence by descent to the present owners
London, Redfern Gallery, Coronation Exhibition: Contemporary British Paintings, 28 May - 25 July 1953
London, Crane Kalman, Modern British Paintings, 29 November 1967 - 15 January 1968
Basel, Galerie Beyerler, Ben Nicholson, April - 15 June 1968, no.17, illustrated p.22
London, Crane Kalman, Ben Nicholson: Early Works, 27 June - 31 July 1968
Norbert Lynton, Ben Nicholson, Phaidon, London, 1993, no. 179, illustrated p.195
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