Ben Nicholson

A Legacy of Innovation: Works From The Collection of William S. Paley Sold to Benefit the Museum of Modern Art and other Charitable Organizations

Ben Nicholson

1894 - 1982

Rhodos (Variations on a Theme, No. 4)

signed Nicholson, titled and dated 65 (on the verso); signed Nicholson, titled and dated 1965T (on the reverse mount)

etching with gouache, pen and ink and pencil on paper mounted on artist board

sheet: 6 by 5⅞ in. (15.2 by 14.9 cm)

mount: 11⅜ by 11 in. (20.7 by 28 cm.)

Executed in 1965.

We are grateful to Rachel Rose Smith and Lee Beard for their kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work. A catalogue raisonné of Ben Nicholson’s paintings and reliefs is currently being prepared by Modern Art Press, and the authors encourage owners to be in touch. Please write to Rachel Rose Smith, c/o Sotheby’s Modern & Postwar British Art, Sotheby’s, 34-35 New Bond Street, London, W1A 2AA or email modbrit@sothebys.com.