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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 16, 2011 | Christie's | London | 20th Century British & Irish Art Evening Sale including The Lord Forte Collection of Works by L.S. Lowry | 20 | $****** - ****** | 1935 (painting) |
paintings
101.6 x 105.4 cm (40 x 41.5 in)
oil on canvas
signed and dated twice 'Ben Nicholson 1935' (on the backboard and on the canvas overlap), signed and dated again and inscribed 'Ben Nicholson/Painting 1935/price £100' (on the backboard), signed and inscribed again 'Ben Nicholson/7 The Mall/Parkhill Road/Hampstead/London/N.W.3.' (on the backboard)
Winifred Nicholson, and by descent to the present owner.
London, Lefevre Gallery, Ben Nicholson: Carved Reliefs and Paintings, September 1935. Cardiff, Arts Council of Great Britain, National Museum of Wales, British Art and the Modern Movement 1930-40, October - November 1962, no. 116, as 'Painting 1935'. London, Marlborough Fine Art, Art in Britain 1930-40 Centred Around Axis, Circle and Unit One, March - April 1965, no. 125, as 'Painting 1935'. London, Tate Gallery, Ben Nicholson, June - July 1969, no. 54. Cambridge, Kettle's Yard Gallery, Ben Nicholson: the years of experiment, 1919-1939, July - August 1983, no. 47, as 'Painting 1935': this exhibition travelled to Bradford, Cartwright Hall, September - October 1983; Canterbury, Royal Museum, October - November 1983; and Plymouth, City Museum and Art Gallery, December 1983 - January 1984. Madrid, Fundacion Juan March, Ben Nicholson, 1987, no. 29: this exhibition travelled to Lisbon, Fudacion Calouste Gulbenkian, no. 14. London, Tate Gallery, Ben Nicholson, October 1993 - January 1994, no. 65: this exhibition travelled to St Etienne, Musée d'Art Moderne, February - May 1994. Valencia, IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez, Ben Nicholson, April - July 2002. Hayama, The Museum of Modern Art, Ben Nicholson, February - March 2004, no. 37: this exhibition travelled to Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, April - May 2004; and Tokyo, Tokyo Station Gallery, May - July 2004. Kendall, Abbot Hall, Ben Nicholson, July - September 2008, no. 28: this exhibition travelled to Bexhill, De La Warr Pavilion, October 2008 - January 2009; and St Ives, Tate, January - May 2009.
Axis 4, 1935, p. 20, illustrated. H. Read (intro.), Ben Nicholson paintings reliefs, drawings, volume I, London, 1955, pl. 90, as 'painting, 1935'. Exhibition catalogue, Ben Nicholson, London, Tate Gallery, 1969, pp. 36, 68, no. 54, illustrated. C. Harrison, English Art and Modernism 1900 - 1939, London, 1981, p. 288, illustrated. Exhibition catalogue, Ben Nicholson: the years of experiment 1919-1939, Cambridge, Kettle's Yard, 1983, p. 75, no. 47, illustrated. J. Lewison, Ben Nicholson, Oxford, 1991, no. 78, illustrated. N. Lynton, Ben Nicholson, London, 1993, p. 92, no. 68, illustrated. Exhibition catalogue, Ben Nicholson, London, Tate Gallery, 1993, p. 150, no. 65, illustrated. Exhibition catalogue, Ben Nicholson, Hayama, The Museum of Modern Art, 2004, pp. 88, 89, no. 35, illustrated. Exhibition catalogue, Ben Nicholson in England, Kendall, Abbot Hall, 2008, p. 51, no. 28, illustrated.
