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Ben Nicholson

1934 (White Relief)

Auction Closed

November 21, 05:49 PM GMT

Estimate

400,000 - 600,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

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 info@bncr.org.uk.

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