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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 21, 2023 | Sotheby's | London | Modern British & Irish Art Evening Auction | 18 | $****** - ****** | Very Good | Nov 11-51 (oval) | ||
Nov 15, 1989 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Drawings & Watercolours | 474 | $****** - ****** | Very Good | Nov 11-51 (oval) |
paintings
56.5 x 61 cm (22.24 x 24.02 in)
oil and pencil on canvas
signed Ben Nicholson and dated Nov - 11 - 51 (on the canvas overlap)
Durlacher Bros, New York
Mr and Mrs Harry Gerstel, New York
Their sale, Christie"s, New York, 15 November 1989, lot 474
Bernard Jacobson Gallery/ Crane Kalman Gallery, London
Macconnal Mason, London
New York, Durlacher Bros, Ben Nicholson , November - December 1952, no 9
New York, Hirschl and Adler Galleries, The British Imagination , 1990 (possibly)
London, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, Ben Nicholson: Modern British Masters , 1993, no. 13
Saint-Etienne, Musée d"Art Moderne, Entre la sérénité et l"inquiétude , 19 November 1993 - 31 January 1994
New York, Andre Emmerich Gallery, Ben Nicholson , 1994, no. 13
London, Crane Kalman Gallery, Ben Nicholson and His Two Wives , 21 March - 4 May 1996, no.23
Norbert Lynton, Ben Nicholson , Phaidon, London, 1993, no. 241, illustrated
Ben Nicholson
1894 - 1982
Nov 11-51 (oval)
signed Ben Nicholson and dated Nov - 11 - 51 (on the canvas overlap)
oil and pencil on canvas
unframed: 56.5 by 61cm.; 22¼ by 24in.
framed: 78 by 82cm.; 30¾ by 32¼in.
Executed in 1951.
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 [email protected] .
