Property from an Important Private Collection
Ben Nicholson
Dec 61 (Clay Green)
Auction Closed
November 22, 01:24 PM GMT
Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Ben Nicholson
1894 - 1982
Dec 61 (Clay Green)
signed Ben Nicholson and titled (on the backboard)
oil on carved hardboard (Pavotex)
unframed: 19 by 41cm.; 7½ by 16in.
framed: 21 by 43.5cm.; 8¼ by 17in.
Executed in 1961.
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.
Marlborough Gerson Gallery, New York, 1966
Billy Wilder Collection
Sale, Christie's New York, 13 November 1989, lot 23, where acquired by the family of the present owner and thence by descent
London, Marlborough, Ben Nicholson, 1963, no. 5
New York, Marlborough-Gherson Gallery, 1965, no. 21
New York, Andre Emmerich Gallery, Ben Nicholson 1955 - 1965, 1965, no. 21
M. N. Carter, "The Obsession of Billy Wilder," Saturday Review, December 1980, illustrated in colour p. 60
Nobert Lynton, Ben Nicholson, Phaidon, London, 1993, no. 316, illustrated p. 327
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