Property from a Distinguished Private Collection
Still Life with Green Jug
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June 6, 05:43 PM GMT
Estimate
150,000 - 250,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Distinguished Private Collection
Ben Nicholson
1894 - 1982
Still Life with Green Jug
inscribed (on the reverse)
oil and pencil on board
unframed: 46 by 55cm.; 18 by 21½in.
framed: 65 by 74cm.; 25½ by 29in.
Executed in 1929.
We are grateful to Rachel Smith for her kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.
The present work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Ben Nicholson’s paintings and reliefs, which is currently being prepared. The authors encourage any other 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.
Acquired from the Artist by F.L.S. Murray, London
J. Kasmin
Crane Kalman Gallery, London, where acquired by the present owner, 1971
Ronald Alley, Ben Nicholson, Beaverbrook Newspapers Limited, London, 1962, illustrated pl. 2
John Russell (ed.), Ben Nicholson, drawings paintings and reliefs 1911 – 1968, Thames and Hudson, London, 1969, no. 9, illustrated
Nobert Lynton, Ben Nicholson, Phaidon, London, 1993, p. 39, illustrated pl. 35
London, Crane Kalman Gallery, Exhibition of Paintings of Merit, 1957, no. 23, illustrated pl. XI
London, Gimpel Fils Gallery, Ben Nicholson, 1959, no. 2
Hannover, Kestner - Gesellschaft, Ben Nicholson, 26 February - 5 April 1959, no. 2, illustrated in the exh. cat., with tour to Stadtische Kunsthalle, Mannheim, Kunstverein, Hamburg and Museum Folkwang, Essen
London, Crane Kalman Gallery, Paintings of Merit, 15 May - 10 June 1967, no. 23
Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Ben Nicholson, 1968, no. 4, illustrated in the exh. cat.
London, Crane Kalman Gallery, Modern British Paintings, 1971
London, Tate Britain, Picasso and Modern British Art, 15 February - 15 July 2012, no. 39, illustrated in the exh. cat., p. 98, with tour to Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
London, Crane Kalman Gallery, Two Points Atlantic - St Ives and Provincetown, 2 November - 16 December 2017
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