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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 25, 2014 | Christie's | London | Modern British Art Evening Sale | 8 | $****** - ****** | 1945 (Still Life With Mugs) |
paintings
67.9 x 55.3 cm (26.73 x 21.77 in)
oil on canvas, in the artist's frame
signed and dated 'Ben Nicholson/1945' (on the canvas overlap), signed again and inscribed 'NICHOLSON Chy an Kerris/ Carbis Bay/ Cornwall' (on the backboard), inscribed 'Lanhams St Ives/please despatch by passenger to: Miss Helen SUTHERLAND/Cockley Moor/Dockray/Penrith/Cumberland/Station/TROUTBECK/L.M.S.' (on a piece of paper attached to the backboard)
Acquired directly from the artist by Helen Sutherland and by whom bequeathed to the present owners’ family.
Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Paintings and drawings from the private collection of Miss Helen Sutherland, March - May 1962, no. 35.London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Helen Sutherland Collection: a pioneer collection of the 1930s, December 1970 - January 1971, no. 69. Bottrop, Josef Albers Museum, Ben Nicholson, October - December 1989, no. 11, as '1945, still life'.London, Tate Gallery, 1990, on loan.
Exhibition catalogue, Paintings and drawings from the private collection of Miss Helen Sutherland, Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, 1962, no. 35, illustrated. N. Lynton, Ben Nicholson, London, 1993, p. 211, pl. 195.
