Made in Britain
Made in Britain
Auction Closed
March 17, 04:17 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
WILLIAM NICHOLSON
1872-1949
A GAME OF PELOTA
oil on canvasboard
33 by 39.5cm.; 13 by 15¼in.
Executed in 1939.
Albert H Girling
Sale, Sotheby's London, 30th May 1951, lot 138
Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London, where acquired by J.B. Priestly in 1951, and thence by descent
Executor's Sale, Phillips London, 2nd March 1999, lot 35, where acquired by Ewan Mundy Fine Art, Glasgow
Private Collection, U.K., from whom acquired by the present owner
Lillian Browse, William Nicholson, Hart-Davies, London, 1956, cat. no.492;
Patricia Reed, William Nicholson, Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, Yale University Press and Modern Art Press, London, 2011, cat. no.839, illustrated p.624.
London, Roland, Browse & Delbanco, William Nicholson and Josef Herman, October - November 1951, cat. no.28, (as A Game of Pelota, Saare, near Ciboure).