The picnic

Details

Sir William Nicholson (1872-1949)
The picnic
signed 'Nicholson' (lower left)
oil on canvas-board
12 7/8/x 15 7/8 in. (32.8 x 40.8 cm.)
Painted circa 1932

Provenance

Purchased by Mrs Graham-Browne (Dame Marie Tempest) at the 1934 exhibition.
Major Norman Loring, his sale; Christie's, 28 July 1955, lot 185 (120gns.), where purchased by the present owner.

Literature

L. Browse, William Nicholson, London, 1956, no. 563.

Exhibited

London, Leicester Galleries, Recent Paintings by William Nicholson, May-June 1934, no. 84.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

A scene above Codford looking south across the Wylie Valley in Wiltshire. The artist's daughter identifies herself and her mother Edie with the dog Gypsy sitting in the shade with Anne, Edie's daughter by her first marriage. Jenny Nicholson, the artist's granddaughter is on top of the haystack, while Edie's son by her first marriage, John, in a white sailor suit and hat is left, in the shadow of the same haystack as the artist. The summer of 1932 at Sutton Veny was the last summer that the artist and his family spent together.
P.R.

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