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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 1, 2011 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist and Modern Evening Sale | 67 | $****** - ****** | Sept. 53 (Balearic) | |||
Jun 23, 1997 | Christie's | London | Impressionist & Modern Paintings, Watercolours & Sculpture (Part I | 42 | $****** - ****** | Sept. 53 (Balearic) |
paintings
109 x 120 cm (42.91 x 47.24 in)
oil and pencil on canvas in artist's frame
signed, dated and titled 'Ben Nicholson Sept 14-53 (Balaeric)' (on the canvas overlap); signed with initials and titled again 'B.N. BALEARIC' (on the artist's frame)
Cyril S. Reddihough, Esq., Ilkley, Yorkshire (by 1954). Gimpel Fils Gallery, London (by 1962).
Anon. sale, Christie's, London, 23 June 1997, lot 42.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Venice, XXVII Biennale, June-October 1954, no. 465. Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne; Brussels, Palais des Beaux Arts and Kunsthalle Zurich, Ben Nicholson, winter 1954, no. 56. London, Tate Gallery, Ben Nicholson: A Retrospective Exhibition, June-July 1955, no. 59. Zurich, Galerie Charles Lienhard; Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft; Mannheim, Städtische Kunsthalle; Kunstverein Hamburg and Essen, Folkwang Museum, Ben Nicholson, January-August 1959, no. 20. Kunsthalle Bern, Ben Nicholson, May-July 1961, no. 60. Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts (on extended loan, 1961). Eindhoven, Stedelijk van Abbe-Museum, Kompas III, December-February 1962, no. 60. London, Gimpel Fils Gallery, A Decade with Ben Nicholson, April 1963, no. 12. Bottrop, Moderne Galerie, Ben Nicholson, October-December 1989, no. 19 (illustrated in color). Paris, Galerie Marwan Hoss, Hommage à Ben Nicholson, October-November 1990. Museo d'arte Mendrisio, Ben Nicholson opere dal 1921 al 1981, April-June 1993 (illustrated in color on the cover and p. 25). Barcelona, Fundació 'La Caixa', Europa de Postguerra 1945-1965, Art Després del Diluvi, May-July 1995, no. 148.
H. Read, ed., Ben Nicholson: Work since 1947, London, 1956, vol. 2, no. 94 (illustrated). J. Lewison, Ben Nicholson, Oxford, 1991, p. 128, no. 122 (illustrated in color). N. Lynton, Ben Nicholson, London, 1993, p. 271 (illustrated in color, pl. 257).
