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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 27, 2017 | Christie's | London | Modern British & Irish Art Evening Sale | 28 | $****** - ****** | 1932 (guitar) |
paintings
73.7 x 104.8 cm (29 x 41.25 in)
oil and pencil on gesso-prepared board
signed, inscribed and dated ‘guitar 1932/Ben Nicholson 1932’ (on the backboard)
Cyril Reddihough, by whom purchased at the 1832 exhibition.
Dame Barbara Hepworth, until at least 1957.
with Galerie Beyler, Basel.
with Fischer Fine Art, London.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby’s, London, 31 March 1982, lot 106.
Joseph Hackmey, 1993.
Acquired by the present owner, circa 2007.
Probably London, Arthur Tooth & Sons, Carvings by Barbara Hepworth, Paintings by Ben Nicholson, November - December 1932, no. 22, as 'Abstraction'.
New York, André Emmerich, Ben Nicholson, April - May 1961, no. 48.
Dallas, Museum of Fine Arts, Ben Nicholson, April - May 1964, no. 6.
Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Ben Nicholson, April - June 1968, no. 7.
London Crane Kalman Gallery, Ben Nicholson: Early Works, June - July 1968, no. 15.
London, Tate Gallery, Ben Nicholson, June - July 1969, no. 34.
London, Fischer Fine Art, A Journey into the Universe of Art, 1972, no. 64.
London, Fischer Fine Art, Ben Nicholson Paintings, Reliefs and Drawings, July 1974, no. 2.
Buffalo New York, Albright- Knox Art Gallery, Ben Nicholson: Fifty years of His Art, October - November 1978, no. 13, this exhibition travelled to: Washington, Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, December 1978 - February 1979; and New York, Brooklyn Museum, March - May 1979.
Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Jubilee Exhibition - Masters of Modern Art, May - September 1982, no. 112.
London, Tate Gallery, Ben Nicholson, October 1993 - January 1994, no. 21.
Valencia, IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez, Ben Nicholson, April - July 2002, exhibition not numbered.
J.P. Hodin, Ben Nicholson: The Meeting of his Art, London, 1957, pl. 19, as '1932 (musical instrument)'.
Exhibition catalogue, Ben Nicholson, Basel, Galerie Beyeler, 1968, n.p., no. 7, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Ben Nicholson: Early Works, London, Crane Kalman Gallery, 1968, n.p., no. 15, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, A Journey into the Universe of Art, London, Fischer Fine Art, 1972, n.p., no. 64, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Ben Nicholson Paintings, Reliefs and Drawings, London, Fischer Fine Art, 1974, pp. 9, 18, no. 2.
Exhibition catalogue, Ben Nicholson: Fifty years of his art, Buffalo, New York, Albright- Knox Art Gallery, 1978, p. 57, no. 13, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Ben Nicholson, London, Tate Gallery, 1993, pp. 117, 210, no. 21.
Exhibition catalogue, Ben Nicholson, Valencia, IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez, 2002, p. 124, exhibition not numbered, illustrated.
in the artist's frame
