Ben Nicholson
TWO FORMS (version 7 midget) 1940-42
Auction Closed
June 28, 02:51 PM GMT
Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Ben Nicholson
1894 - 1982
TWO FORMS (version 7 midget) 1940-42
signed Ben Nicholson, dated 1940 and inscribed (on the reverse of the backboard)
tempera on board, laid on the Artist's prepared board
unframed (Artist's prepared backboard): 33 by 33.5cm.; 13 by 13¼in.
framed: 35 by 35.5cm.; 14 by 14in.
Executed in 1940.
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.
Buchholz Gallery, New York
The American British Art Centre, New York, where purchased by Kurt Valentin, 1946
G.D. Thompson
Gallerie Wittrock, Dusseldorf
Private Collection, Dusseldorf
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London
Private Collection, U.K., from where acquired by the present owner in 2005
New York, The American British Art Center, 1946
Zurich and Dusseldorf, The Thompson Collection, 1960-61
London, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, Ben Nicholson, 1993, no. 4, illustrated p. 21-22
Herbert Read, Ben Nicholson, Paintings, Reliefs, Drawings, Vol. 1, Lund Humphries, London, 1955, no. 106, (as version 7 (midget))
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