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PROPERTY FORMERLY IN THE COLLECTION OF PETER LANYON
BEN NICHOLSON, O.M. (1894-1982)
1943 (Towednack, Cornwall)
Details
BEN NICHOLSON, O.M. (1894-1982)
1943 (Towednack, Cornwall)
signed, inscribed and dated 'Towednack, Cornwall/ Ben Nicholson/ 1943/ property of/ Peter Lanyon' (on the reverse)
oil and pencil on board, relief, on the artist's prepared board
15 x 19 in. (38.1 x 48.2 cm.)
Painted in 1943.
1943 (Towednack, Cornwall)
signed, inscribed and dated 'Towednack, Cornwall/ Ben Nicholson/ 1943/ property of/ Peter Lanyon' (on the reverse)
oil and pencil on board, relief, on the artist's prepared board
15 x 19 in. (38.1 x 48.2 cm.)
Painted in 1943.
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist by Peter Lanyon in 1944.
with Redfern Gallery, London, where purchased by Lady Norton in June 1954.
with Marlborough Fine Art, London.
with Waddington and Tooth Galleries, London.
with Waddington Galleries, London, where purchased by the previous owner's father in December 1979.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 1 March 2021, lot 29, where purchased by the present owner.
with Redfern Gallery, London, where purchased by Lady Norton in June 1954.
with Marlborough Fine Art, London.
with Waddington and Tooth Galleries, London.
with Waddington Galleries, London, where purchased by the previous owner's father in December 1979.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 1 March 2021, lot 29, where purchased by the present owner.
Literature
H. Read (intro.), Ben Nicholson: Paintings, Reliefs, Drawings, Volume I, London, 1955, no. 86, illustrated, as 'still life and landscape (Towednack)'.
N. Lynton, Ben Nicholson, London, 1993, p. 192, no. 176, illustrated.
C. Stephens, Peter Lanyon: At the edge of landscape, London, 2000, p. 19, fig. 5.
T. Treves, Peter Lanyon: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings and Three-Dimensional Works, London, 2018, p. 59, fig. 51.
N. Lynton, Ben Nicholson, London, 1993, p. 192, no. 176, illustrated.
C. Stephens, Peter Lanyon: At the edge of landscape, London, 2000, p. 19, fig. 5.
T. Treves, Peter Lanyon: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings and Three-Dimensional Works, London, 2018, p. 59, fig. 51.
Exhibited
Swindon, no. 16, exhibition not traced, lent by Peter Lanyon.
London, Lefevre Gallery, Ben Nicholson: Paintings & Reliefs 1939-1945, October 1945, no. 26, as 'Towednack, Cornwall'.
New York, British Council, English-Speaking Union of the United States, The Last Fifty Years in British Art 1900-1950, January 1951, no. 21, as 'Towednack'.
Berne, Kunsthalle, Ben Nicholson, May - July 1961, no. 43, as 'Towednack, Cornwall'.
London, Lefevre Gallery, Ben Nicholson: Paintings & Reliefs 1939-1945, October 1945, no. 26, as 'Towednack, Cornwall'.
New York, British Council, English-Speaking Union of the United States, The Last Fifty Years in British Art 1900-1950, January 1951, no. 21, as 'Towednack'.
Berne, Kunsthalle, Ben Nicholson, May - July 1961, no. 43, as 'Towednack, Cornwall'.
Further Details
We are very grateful to Rachel Smith and Lee Beard for their assistance in cataloguing this lot.
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