Modern & Post-War British Art
Modern & Post-War British Art
Property from a Private Collection, USA
BEN NICHOLSON | 1970 (ONE PLAIN, ONE CURLY GOBLET)
Auction Closed
November 20, 12:36 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
BEN NICHOLSON
1894-1982
1970 (ONE PLAIN, ONE CURLY GOBLET)
signed, titled, dated 1970 and inscribed on the backboard
pencil and oil wash on paper on the Artist's prepared board
sheet: 28 by 21cm.; 11 by 8in.; board: 42 by 33cm.; 16½ by 12¾in.
Beyeler Foundation, Basel
The Redfern Gallery, London, where acquired by Guy Holford Dixon, 12th April 1972
Sale, Christie's London, 11th June 1992, lot 30
André Emmerich, New York
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, where acquired by the present owner, 17th October 2000
Christopher Neve (intro.), Ben Nicholson, Modern British Masters Volume VIII, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, 1993, cat. no.33, illustrated p.72.
We are grateful to Dr Lee Beard, author of Ben Nicholson: Writings and Ideas (Lund Humphries, 2019), for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work. Dr Beard is currently preparing the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the Artist’s work and would like to hear from owners of any work by the Artist so that these can be included in this comprehensive catalogue. Please write to Dr Lee Beard, c/o Sotheby’s Modern & Post-War British Art, London, W1A 2AA or email modbrit@sothebys.com.