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Ben Nicholson

June 1959 (Relief)

Auction Closed

June 28, 02:51 PM GMT

Estimate

70,000 - 100,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Ben Nicholson

1894 - 1982

June 1959 (Relief)


signed Ben Nicholson and titled June 1959 (on the reverse of the board)

oil and pencil on carved relief board, laid on the Artist's prepared board

unframed (Artist's prepared board): 29 by 29cm.; 11½ by 11½in.

framed: 31 by 31cm.; 12¼ by 12¼in.

Executed in 1959.


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.

Galerie Charles Lienhard, Zurich

Margrit and Charles Lienhard collection, Zurich

Deichmann Collection, Milan, and thence by descent to the present owner

Bern, Kunsthalle Bern, Ben Nicholson, 1961, no. 102
John Russell (ed.), Ben Nicholson: drawings, paintings and reliefs 1911-1968, Thames and Hudson, London, 1969, no. 214, illustrated (as circa 1959 (Relief))