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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 23, 2022 | Sotheby's | London | Modern British & Irish Art | 3 | $****** - ****** | Very Good | (walton wood cottage, Cumbrian landscape, No. 2) | ||
Jun 14, 2001 | Sotheby's | London | The Eye of a Collector | 46 | $****** - ****** | Very Good | 1928 - Walton Wood cottage, Cumbrian landscape, No.2 |
paintings
46 x 61 cm (18.11 x 24.02 in)
oil and pencil on canvas
Acquired from the artist by the artist's brother-in-law, Wilfred Roberts Esq, Brampton, Cumberland, by 1948
Crane Kalman, London, where acquired by Stanley J. Seeger, 1 March 1985
His sale, Sotheby's London, The Eye of a Collector, Works from the Collection of Stanley J. Seeger, 14 June 2001, lot 46
Jonathan Clark & Co, London, where acquired by the present owner, 5th May 2006
London, Lefevre Gallery, Paintings by Ben & Winifred Nicholson, 1928, no. 24
London, Lefevre Gallery, Ben Nicholson: Drawings 1921-47; Paintings and Reliefs 1921-38, 1946-47, May 1947, no. 35
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Ben Nicholson, November 1954 - January 1955, no. 3, with British Council Tour to Musée National D'art Moderne, Paris, Palais Des Beaux-Arts De Bruxelles, Brussels, Kunsthaus, Zurich, and Tate Gallery, London
Zurich, Gallery Charles Lienhard, Ben Nicholson, 1959, no. 3
Mannheim, Stadische Kunsthalle, 18 April - 18 May 1959, no. 4 (as Cumbrian Landscape (version 2) )
Cambridge, Kettle's Yard, Ben Nicholson - The Years of Experiment 1919-39 , 1983, no. 19 (as Walton Wood Cottage No. 2 )
London, Crane Kalman Gallery, 1985 (as Cumbrian landscape (Version II) )
Mendrisio, Museo d' Arte, Ben Nicholson opere dal 1921 al 1981 , 1993, no. 50
Kendall, Abbot Hall, A Continuous Line: Ben Nicholson in England, 7 July - 20 September 2008, no. 9, illustrated in catalogue p. 31, with tour to Bexhill, De La Warr Pavilion, St Ives, Tate
Harold Stanley Ede, 'Ben Nicholson, Winifred Nicholson and William Staite-Murray ,' Artwork , Vol. IV, No. 16, Winter 1928, illustrated p. 263
Herbert Read (intro.), Ben Nicholson: Paintings, Reliefs, Drawings, Lund Humphries, London, 1955, illustrated pl. 39
John Summerson, Ben Nicholson, West Drayton, 1948, illustrated pl. 5
Ronald Alley, Ben Nicholson , Beaverbrook Newspapers, London, 1962, note to plate 1 (as Walton Wood Cottage, no. I )
Property from an Important Private Collection
Ben Nicholson
1894 - 1982
1928 (walton wood cottage, Cumbrian landscape, No. 2)
oil and pencil on canvas
unframed: 46 by 61cm.; 18 by 24in.
framed: 53 by 68cm.; 21 by 26¾in.
Executed in 1928.
We are grateful to Rachel Smith for her kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.
A catalogue raisonné of Ben Nicholson's paintings and reliefs is currently being prepared, and the authors encourage owners to be in touch. Please write to Rachel Smith, c/o Sotheby's Modern & Postwar British Art, Sotheby's, 34-35 New Bond Street, London, W1A 2AA or email tamsin.goldingyee@sothebys.com .