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Property from the Collection of Sir Antony and Lady Hornby

Ben Nicholson

1944 (Cornish Port)

Auction Closed

November 21, 05:49 PM GMT

Estimate

120,000 - 180,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Ben Nicholson

1894 - 1982

1944 (Cornish Port)

 

signed Ben Nicholson, titled, dated 1944, and inscribed (on the backboard)

oil and pencil on board

unframed (image): 22 by 28cm.; 8½ by 11in.

framed: 40.5 by 46.5cm.; 16 by 18¼in.

Executed in 1944.


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.

Lefevre Galleries, London, where acquired by H.P. Mackham

Redfern Galleries, London, where acquired by Captain de Pass, R.N., 8 June 1953

Crane Kalman Gallery, London, where acquired by Sir Antony and Lady Hornby in January 1968 and thence by descent to the present owners

London, Redfern Gallery, Coronation Exhibition: Contemporary British Paintings, 28 May - 25 July 1953

London, Crane Kalman, Modern British Paintings, 29 November 1967 - 15 January 1968

Basel, Galerie Beyerler, Ben Nicholson, April - 15 June 1968, no.17, illustrated p.22

London, Crane Kalman, Ben Nicholson: Early Works, 27 June - 31 July 1968

Norbert Lynton, Ben Nicholson, Phaidon, London, 1993, no. 179, illustrated p.195