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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 23, 2017 | Christie's | London | Modern British & Irish Art Evening Sale | 29 | $****** - ****** | 1919 (Blue Bowl in Shadow) | |||
Nov 11, 1999 | Christie's | London | Important British & Irish Art | 38 | $****** - ****** | 1919 - Blue bowl in shadow |
paintings
48.3 x 65.1 cm (19 x 25.63 in)
oil on canvas
signed with initials 'BN' (lower left)
with Browse & Darby, London, where purchased by the previous owner in 1982.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 11 November 1999, where purchased by the present owner.
London, Browse & Darby, British Paintings and Drawings 1880-1960, March - April 1982, no. 16.
London, Browse & Darby, William and Ben Nicholson, Paintings and Drawings 1919-1945, June - July 1983, no. 19.
Ayr, Scottish Arts Council, Maclaurin Art Gallery, Ben Nicholson Still Life and Abstraction, September - October 1985, no. 6: this exhibition travelled to Orkney, Stromess, Pier Arts Centre, June - July 1985; Kirkcaldy, City Museum and Art Gallery, August 1985; and Aberdeen, Artspace, September - October 1985.
Martigny, Foundation Pierre Gianadda, Ben Nicholson Retrospective, November 1992 - January 1993, no. 1.
London, Tate Gallery, Ben Nicholson, October 1993 - January 1994, no. 1: this exhibition travelled to St. Etienne, British Council, Musee d'Art Moderne, February - April 1994.
W. Packer, 'Ben Nicholson & Harold Gilman', Financial Times, London, 23 March 1982.
J. Lewison, exhibition catalogue, Ben Nicholson: the years of experiment 1919-39, Cambridge, Kettle's Yard, 1983, p. 10, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Ben Nicholson Still Life and Abstraction, Ayr, Scottish Arts Council, Maclaurin Art Gallery, 1985, n.p., no. 6, illustrated.
J. Lewison, Ben Nicholson, Oxford, 1991, pp. 8, 126, pl. 1.
J. Lewison, exhibition catalogue, Ben Nicholson, Martigny, Foundation Pierre Gianadda, 1992, pp. 9, 57, 135, no. 1, illustrated.
J. Lewison, exhibition catalogue, Ben Nicholson, London, Tate Gallery, 1993, pp. 14, 101, 205, no. 1, illustrated.
N. Lynton, Ben Nicholson, London, 1993, pp. 18-19, 439, pl. 8.
N. Lynton, Ben Nicholson, London, 1993, p. 15, pl. 6.
J. McEwan, 'A Minnow Chasing His Tail', The Sunday Telegraph, London, 17 October 1993, p. 8.
W. Januszak, 'Driven by Abstraction', The Sunday Times, 17 October 1993, p. 12.
P. Khoroche, Ben Nicholson: drawings and painted reliefs, Aldershot, 2002, pp. 12, 14, 21, 43, pl. 2.
1919 ()
signed with initials 'BN' (lower left)
oil on canvas
19 x 25 5/8 in. (48.3 x 65 cm.)
Painted in 1919.
