Camellias

Details

Sir William Nicholson (1872-1949)
Camellias
signed with an initial 'N.' (lower left)
oil on panel
16 x 13 in. (40.6 x 33 cm.)
Painted in 1934.

Provenance

with Leicester Galleries, London.
Miss Viola C.H. Stirling.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Glasgow, 17 November 1994, lot 872.
with Browse and Darby, London, August 1996, where purchased by the present owner.

Literature

L. Browse, William Nicholson, London, 1956, no. 402, dated 1933, as oil on canvas.
P. Reed, William Nicholson Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, London, 2011, p. 558, no. 726, illustrated.

Exhibited

London, Leicester Galleries, Recent Paintings by William Nicholson, May - June 1934, no. 110 or 113.

Special Notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

Written in an unknown hand on a label on the back of the present work reads the inscription 'Camellias/by William Nicholson/painted at/Rozelle, Ayr/1933'. Rozelle was the family home of Col. Claud Lorn Campbell Hamilton (1874-1954) and his wife Veronica (1885-1959), located two miles south of Ayr on the west coast of Scotland. Browse states that this work was painted when Nicholson was staying with the Hamiltons in 1933, but, as camellias do not normally flower in July, it seems likely that the present work dates from William Nicholson's documented visit to Rozelle in March 1934.

The first recorded owner of this work, Miss Viola C.H. Stirling CBE (1906-1989) of Gargunnock House, west of Stirling, was a friend of the Hamiltons of Rozelle.

We are very grateful to Patricia Reed for preparing this catalogue entry.

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