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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 16, 2011 | Bonhams | London | 20th Century British & Irish Art | 48 | $****** - ****** | Abstract collage (1933) |
Works on Paper
33 x 17 cm (12.99 x 6.69 in)
mixed media
signed and dated 'Ben Nicholson 1933' (verso)
The artist Thence by descent Papier collé is a painting technique and type of collage whereby the artist pastes pieces of flat material into a painting in much in the same way as a collage, except the shape of the pasted pieces are objects themselves. Cubist painter Georges Braque, inspired by Pablo Picasso's collage method, invented the technique and first used it in his 1912 painting, Fruit Dish and Glass. The method later found favour with Ben Nicholson, as in the present example. This was as a direct result of regular contact with Braque in the early 1930s, when Nicholson was a frequent visit to France. After one particular visit in January 1933, he described his new friend in a personal letter to Barbara Hepworth "He is a dear person - a big and simple person whom one is very fond of - a most beautiful thought'
, he understands 'so simply and immediately' (Sophie Bowness, The Dieppe Connection: The Town and its Artists from Turner to Braque, Brighton Art Gallery, 1992, p.46) He became interested in combining collage and painting to investigate different methods of pictorial representation. In the present example, a doily has been fixed to the surface. A motif that he repeats in Jan 27 1933 (see Fig.1), the Tate Britain masterpiece dating from the same period.
