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Ben Nicholson

July 1978

Auction Closed

November 23, 02:38 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Ben Nicholson

1894 - 1982

July 1978


signed Ben Nicholson, titled and inscribed (on the backboard) 

ink, pen and ink and oil wash on canvas board, laid on the artist's backboard

unframed (canvas board): 46 by 35cm.; 18 by 13¾in.

framed: 61.5 by 51cm.; 24¼ by 20in

Executed in 1978.


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.

Gifted by the Artist to Sir Norman Reid (Director of the Tate Gallery 1964-79), and thence by descent
Their sale, Christie's London, 11 November 2010, lot 77
Osborne Samuel, London
Private Collection, UK, from whom acquired by the present owner