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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 22, 2025 | Christie's | London | Modern British and Irish Art Evening Sale | 3 | $****** - ****** | Souvenirs |
paintings
55.2 x 60.3 cm (21.75 x 23.75 in)
oil on canvas
signed and dated ‘Nicholson 1919." (lower right)
Purchased from the 1919 exhibition by Alexander Reid, Glasgow.
Elizabeth Russell Workman, London.
Her sale; Christie"s, London, 6 December 1929, lot 42, as ‘A Souvenir", where purchased by Major Frederick Lessore of Beaux Arts Gallery, London.
with Leicester Galleries, London, 1953, where purchased by Horatia Buxton, and by descent to the present owners.
London, Goupil Gallery, The Goupil Gallery Salon , 1919, no. 44.
London, Beaux Arts Gallery, Exhibition of Paintings by Philip Connard, Paul-Elie Gernez, William Nicholson and S.J. Peploe , June - September 1930, no. 18.
Oxford, Oxford Arts Club, 1930, catalogue not traced.
Toronto, Canadian National Exhibition , 1931, no. 69, catalogue not traced.
Hull, Ferens Art Gallery, 1932, no. 58, catalogue not traced.
Nottingham, Museum and Art Gallery, Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by William Nicholson , March - April 1933, no. 33.
London, Beaux Arts Gallery, Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by William Nicholson , May - June 1933, no. 19.
Manchester, Art Exhibitions Bureau, Manchester City Art Gallery, Platt Hall, Works by William Nicholson , June - July 1933, no. 48: this exhibition travelled to Scarborough, Public Library, August - September 1933, no. 59; Folkestone, Public Art Gallery, October - November 1933, no. 34; Belfast, Municipal Museum and Art Gallery, February 1934, no. 53; Lincoln, Usher Art Gallery, July - August 1934, no. 1; and Newark, Municipal Museum, September - October 1934, no. 10.
London, Beaux Arts Gallery, Exhibition of Early Paintings by Richard Sickert and William Nicholson , May 1939, no. 26.
H. McBride (ed.), Creative Art: A Magazine of Fine and Applied Art , New York, August 1930, p. 153, illustrated.
L. Browse, William Nicholson , London, 1956, p. 71, no. 231.
P. Reed, William Nicholson: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings , London, 2011, p. 353, no. 416, illustrated.
SIR WILLIAM NICHOLSON (1872-1949)
Souvenirs
signed and dated ‘Nicholson 1919." (lower right)
oil on canvas
21 ¾ x 23 ¾ in. (55.2 x 60.4 cm.)
Painted in 1919.
