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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 | 31 | $****** - ****** | October 1949 (Composition-rangitane) |
paintings
191.8 x 164.5 cm (75.51 x 64.76 in)
oil on curved panel
Easton and Robertson commission for the New Zealand Shipping Company to be installed on the Rangitane. with Gimpel Fils, London, 1963. Mr and Mrs Robert B. Mayer of Winnetka, III, their sale; Sotheby's, New York, 25 October 1972, lot 77, where purchased by the present owner.
London, Gimpel Fils, A decade with Ben Nicholson, April 1963, no. 10 or 11. Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Works by Arp, Bissier, Nicholson, Tobey, October - December 1963, no. 82 or 83.
H. Read, Ben Nicholson, Works Since 1947, London, 1956, p. 6.S.A. Nash, Ben Nicholson Fifty Years of His Art, Buffalo, 1978, p. 130.T.F. Wolff, 'The Many Masks of Modern Art', The Christian Science Monitor, September 22nd 1981, p. 20, illustrated.J. Lewison, Ben Nicholson, Oxford, 1991, p. 21.J. Lewison (ed.), exhibition catalogue, Ben Nicholson, London, Tate, 1993, pp. 227, 246, fig. 114, illustrated in Nicholson's Porthmeor Studio, December 1949.N. Lynton, Ben Nicholson, London, 1993, p. 130.S.J. Checkland, Ben Nicholson, The Vicious Circles of his Life and Art, London, 2000, p. 263.C. Stephens (ed.), exhibition catalogue, A Continuous Line, Ben Nicholson in England, London, Tate, 2008, p. 120.
