Ben Nicholson
Mug Knife & Cake, c.1927
pencil & crayon on paper
signed & dated verso
17 3/4 x 24 in / 45.1 x 61 cm
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Provenance
Dorothy Arning
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Ben Nicholson
St Ives, 1945
oil, gouache & pencil on board
signed, dated & inscribed verso
9 x 15 1/2 in / 22.9 x 39.4 cm
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Provenance
Lefevre Gallery
Ivor Braka
Ben Nicholson
Dieppe, c.1933
collage on board
monogrammed in the composition; signed & dedicated 'Kate from Ben' verso
8 3/8 x 10 1/2 in / 21.3 x 26.7 cm
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Provenance
Kate Nicholson
Ben Nicholson
Four Pear, 1955
oil on canvas
signed, dated & inscribed verso
28 x 22 in / 71.1 x 55.9 cm
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Provenance
The Clifton Faidman Collection, California
Private Collection, USA
Exhibitions
North Carolina Museum of Art, Contemporary British Art Waddington Gallery, London, Twentieth Century Works 1988, no. 10. p. 23, illus.
William Pall Gallery
Ben Nicholson
Jenny Wren, 1925
oil on canvas mounted on panel
signed, dated & inscribed on overlap
15 x 18 in / 38.1 x 45.7 cm
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Provenance
Wilfrid Roberts
Waddington Gallery, London
Exhibitions
Kettle’s Yard Gallery, Cambridge, Ben Nicholson: The Years of Experiment 1919-39, 1984
Arts Council Touring Exhibition, no. 17, illus.
Tokyo, Fuji Television Gallery, 1986, no. 1, illus.
Ben Nicholson
Composition (Summer), 1933
oil & pencil on canvas
signed & dated verso
20 x 30 in / 50.8 x 76.2 cm
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Provenance
J L Plaza, Venezuela
Exhibitions
Gimpel Fils, 1957
LeFevre Gallery, Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth, 1933
Ben Nicholson
Porthmeor Beach no.2, 1928
oil on canvas
signed, dated & inscribed verso
18 x 21 in / 45.7 x 53.3 cm
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Ben Nicholson
Cumbrian Landscape - Walton Wood Cottage no.2, 1928
oil on canvas
18 x 24 in / 45.7 x 61 cm
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Provenance
Wilfred Roberts
Christopher Done
Exhibitions
Lefevre Gallery, London, 1928, no 24
British Arts Council touring exhibition, Amsterdam, Paris, Brussels, 1954-5, no. 3
Stadtische Kunshalle, Mannheim, 1959, no. 4
Kettle's yard, Cambridge, 1983, no. 19
Crane Kalman Gallery, 1985
Museo d'Arte, Mendrisio, 1993, no. 50, illus.
Literature
H S Ede, Ben Nicholson, Winiffred Nicholson and William Staite-Murray, 1928, p. 263, illus.