
Penny Day
Head of UK and Ireland
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Provenance
The Artist, by whom gifted to
C.S. Reddihough
Exhibited
Cambridge, Kettle's Yard Gallery, Ben Nicholson–The Years of Experiment 1919-39, in association with the Arts Council of Great Britain, 9 July-29 August 1983, cat.no.40 (ill.b&w); this exhibition travelled to Bradford, Cartwright Hall, 10 September-9 October, Canterbury, Royal Museum, 24 October-26 November 1983 and Plymouth, City Museum and Art Gallery, 2 December 1983-8 January 1984
Madrid, Fundación Juan, Ben Nicholson, 6 February-29 March 1987, organised by The British Council, cat.no.18 (col.ill.); this exhibition travelled throughout Spain and Portugal
London, The Tate Gallery, Ben Nicholson, 13 October 1993-9 January 1994, cat.no.29; this exhibition travelled to St Etienne, Musée d'Art Moderne, 10 February-25 April 1994
Literature
Jeremy Lewison, Ben Nicholson, Phaidon, London, 1991, pl.66 (col.ill.)
Jeremy Lewison, Ben Nicholson, The Tate Gallery, London, 1993, p.212 (ill.b&w and col.ill. p.124)
Norbert Lynton, Ben Nicholson, Phaidon, London, 1993, p.101, pl.90 (col.ill.)
'The 24 bus passes the bottom end of Parkhill Road on its way from Camden Town to Hampstead; among its most important stops in the West End is Tottenham Court Road. Nicholson made a small number of bus ticket objects in which he recognised the compositional and decorative effect of lettering which he saw on placards and signs' (Jeremy Lewison, Ben Nicholson, The Tate Gallery, London, 1993, p.212).