拍品 132
  • 132

SIR WILLIAM NICHOLSON | Tenterden

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50,000 - 70,000 GBP
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描述

  • William Nicholson
  • Tenterden
  • signed with initial and dated 1908; indistinctly inscribed on the reverse
  • oil on canvasboard
  • 33 by 41cm.; 13 by 16in.

來源

Acquired directly from the Artist before 1933 by Major Arthur Clive Nicholson (1878-1961), and thence by descent to the previous owner
Their sale, Sotheby's London, 18th November 2014, lot 126, where acquired by the present owner

展覽

London, Chenil Gallery, circa 1908 (probably, details untraced);
Nottingham, Museum and Art Gallery, Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by William Nicholson, 11th March - 20th April 1933, cat. no.3.

出版

Lillian Browse, William Nicholson, Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1956, cat. no.52, p.44;
Patricia Reed, William Nicholson, Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, Modern Art Press, London, 2011, cat. no.133, illustrated p.139.

Condition

The canvasboard appears to be stable. There is a pinhole in the extreme upper left corner. There is some slight surface dirt and studio matter. There is a small amount of rubbing to the paint surface, in particular in the lower right corner. Subject to the above the work appears to be in excellent overall condition. Inspection under ultra violet light reveals no obvious signs of retouching and a slightly inconsistent varnish. The work is held within a moulded gilt wood frame. Please telephone the department on +44 (0) 207 293 6424 if you have any questions regarding the present work.
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拍品資料及來源

‘William Nicholson is too good an artist to search for the unobvious. He knows it is but fatuous to seek for those things outside the common ones of everyday life and find, in them only, worthy objects of his attention.’ (Albert Rutherston, Contemporary British Artist: William Nicholson, William Brendon & Sons Ltd, 1923, p.16.)

Tenterden captures a lovely summer scene of William Nicholson’s children on a family outing playing by the river. The work was painted whilst the Nicholsons were staying with the Victorian actress Dame Ellen Terry at Smallhythe in Kent. Nancy relaxes in a canoe and Ben poses at the centre of the composition, balancing an extremely long fishing rod, while Tony sits with his back to us, concentrating on fishing at the lower right of the composition.