Vente aux enchères en direct 12224Modern British & Irish Art Day Sale
Ben Nicholson, O.M. (1894-1982)
Lot 168

Ben Nicholson, O.M. (1894-1982)

October 1959 (vertical column)

Fermé21 June 2016

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GBP 104,500

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Ben Nicholson, O.M. (1894-1982)
October 1959 (vertical column)
signed, inscribed and dated 'Ben Nicholson/Oct. 59/(vertical column)' (on the reverse)
oil on carved board, on the artist's prepared board
23 7/8 x 9 ½ in. (60.6 x 24 cm.)

with Gimpel Fils, London, September 1959.
with André Emmerich, New York.
Mr and Mrs William C. Edwards, Jr., Texas.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 16 November 1989, lot 443.

Note du spécialiste

'The uncompromising breadth and statement which had informed the major works of the thirties, and which had not been so evident in the more generally linear works of the forties and early fifties, returned to his art ... The works of this period rely less upon the tension of Nicholson's line and the elegance of his composition and more upon his ability to concentrate experience in the discovery of form ... They convey the essence of landscape as the artist has experienced them and their mood as he recalled it'
(Norman Reid discussing Nicholson's work from the late 1950s, exhibition catalogue, Ben Nicholson, London, Tate Gallery, 1969, pp. 53-55).