Lot Essay
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PROPERTY FORMERLY IN THE DISTINGUISHED COLLECTION OF KATE AND ALLAN EMIL
BEN NICHOLSON, O.M. (1894-1982)
1941 (painting)
Details
BEN NICHOLSON, O.M. (1894-1982)
1941 (painting)
signed and dated twice 'Ben Nicholson/1941' (on the reverse), inscribed 'Dunluce/Trelyon/St Ives/Cornwall -' (on the reverse)
gouache and pencil on board, in the artist's frame
9 x 19 in. (22.8 x 48.2 cm.)
Painted in 1941.
1941 (painting)
signed and dated twice 'Ben Nicholson/1941' (on the reverse), inscribed 'Dunluce/Trelyon/St Ives/Cornwall -' (on the reverse)
gouache and pencil on board, in the artist's frame
9 x 19 in. (22.8 x 48.2 cm.)
Painted in 1941.
Provenance
George L.K. Morris, by 1946.
with Gimpel Fils, London.
Mr and Mrs Allan D. Emil, New York, 1959, and by descent to the present owners.
with Gimpel Fils, London.
Mr and Mrs Allan D. Emil, New York, 1959, and by descent to the present owners.
Literature
H. Slater (ed.), 'A Note on the Importance of Ben Nicholson', Polemic, No. 2, New York, 1946, pp. 51, 59, another version illustrated.
H. Read (intro.), Ben Nicholson: Paintings, Reliefs, Drawings, Volume 1, London, 1955, n.p., no. 129, (version 2).
H. Read (intro.), Ben Nicholson: Paintings, Reliefs, Drawings, Volume 1, London, 1955, n.p., no. 129, (version 2).
Exhibited
American Federation of the Arts, 1963, no. 31, catalogue not traced.
Dallas, Museum of Fine Arts, Ben Nicholson: Retrospective Exhibition, April - May 1964, no. 17.
Dallas, Museum of Fine Arts, Ben Nicholson: Retrospective Exhibition, April - May 1964, no. 17.
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