Ben Nicholson
aug 14-50 (2) : still life (linear)
Auction Closed
November 23, 02:38 PM GMT
Estimate
150,000 - 250,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Ben Nicholson
1894 - 1982
aug 14-50 (2) : still life (linear)
signed Ben Nicholson, titled and inscribed (on the backing board)
oil and pencil on canvas board, laid on the artist's back board
unframed (canvas board): 30.5 by 23cm.; 12 by 9in.
framed: 41 by 33cm.; 16¼ by 13in.
Executed in August 1950.
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 tamsin.goldingyee@sothebys.com.
John Newberry, Grosse Pointe, Michigan, by 1955
Sale, Christie's New York, 16 November 1983, lot 428 (titled AUG 14-50(2))
Saidenberg Gallery, New York, where acquired by the Waddington Galleries, London, 1985
Private Collection, United States
Their sale, Sotheby's New York, 8 June 2017, lot 51, where acquired by the present owner
New York, Durlacher Brothers, Ben Nicholson, 1951, no. 19
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