Ben Nicholson
Aug. 59 (Dordogne)
1959.
Relief. Oil and pencil on carved board.
Signed, dated, titled and with a direction arrow on the reverse. 40.5 x 54 cm (15.9 x 21.2 in).
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• Ben Nicholson transforms the landscape of the French Dordogne into a purely geometric abstraction.
• In 1954, Nicholson represented Great Britain at the Venice Biennale and won the first Guggenheim International Award for Painting in 1957, which he received from President Eisenhower at the White House.
• “
Aug. 59 (Dordogne)
” was exhibited at the legendary Marlborough-Gerson Gallery and at André Emmerich Gallery in New York in 1965.
• Part of a European private collection since 1972 and offered on the international auction market for the first time (source: artprice.com).
• Reliefs by Ben Nicholson are in prominent collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and the Tate Modern, London
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The present work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of paintings and reliefs by Ben Nicholson.