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Lot 18AR

Ben Nicholson O.M.
(British, 1894-1982)
Oct 3-55 (Chiusure, Tuscany) 38 x 49 cm. (15 x 19 1/4 in.)

15 June 2016, 15:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £22,500 inc. premium

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Ben Nicholson O.M. (British, 1894-1982)

Oct 3-55 (Chiusure, Tuscany)
signed, titled and dated 'Tuscany/Chiusure Oct 3 53 Ben Nicholson' (verso); further signed, titled and dated again 'BEN NICHOLSON/OCT 3-55/(Chiusure)' (on the backboard)
pencil and wash on card
38 x 49 cm. (15 x 19 1/4 in.)

Footnotes

Provenance
The Artist, from whom acquired by
C.S. Reddihough

Exhibited
London, Gimpel Fils (catalogue untraced)
Zurich, Galerie Charles Lienhard, Ben Nicholson, 3 January-7 February 1959, cat.no.27 (catalogue untraced)
Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Ben Nicholson, 26 February-5 April, 1959, cat.no.47
Mannheim, Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, Ben Nicholson, 18 April-18 May 1959, cat.no.47 (catalogue untraced)

Literature
Ben Nicholson, Ben Nicholson, Volume 2, Lund Humphries, London, 1956, pl.126 (ill.b&w)
Peter Khoroche, Ben Nicholson; Drawings and Painted Reliefs, Lund Humphries, Farnham, 2002, p.64, pl.64 (col.ill.)

Nicholson has inscribed the backboard with the following instruction 'Lienhard Galerie, When reproducing in colour make surround a little, a very little, less green not more green and with board to throw light shadow'.

On the second trip, in October 1955, Reddihough and Nicholson worked south from Tuscany, through Umbria to Rome. They stopped off mainly in hill villages, not in towns and this gave the expedition quite a different feel from their earlier one, as did the very cold weather. (Peter Khoroche, Ben Nicholson; Drawings and Painted Reliefs, Lund Humphries, Farnham, 2002, p.62).

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