October 1959 (vertical column)

Details

Ben Nicholson, O.M. (1894-1982)
October 1959 (vertical column)
signed, inscribed and dated 'Ben Nicholson/Oct. 59/(vertical column)' (on the reverse)
oil on carved board, on the artist's prepared board
23 7/8 x 9 ½ in. (60.6 x 24 cm.)

Provenance

with Gimpel Fils, London, September 1959.
with André Emmerich, New York.
Mr and Mrs William C. Edwards, Jr., Texas.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 16 November 1989, lot 443.

Exhibited

Dallas, Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts, Texas Collects 20th Century Art, May 1963.
Dallas, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Ben Nicholson Retrospective, April - May 1964.

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Lot Essay

'The uncompromising breadth and statement which had informed the major works of the thirties, and which had not been so evident in the more generally linear works of the forties and early fifties, returned to his art ... The works of this period rely less upon the tension of Nicholson's line and the elegance of his composition and more upon his ability to concentrate experience in the discovery of form ... They convey the essence of landscape as the artist has experienced them and their mood as he recalled it'
(Norman Reid discussing Nicholson's work from the late 1950s, exhibition catalogue, Ben Nicholson, London, Tate Gallery, 1969, pp. 53-55).

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