Lot Essay
Lily Macdonald was the wife of Duncan Macdonald of the Lefevre Gallery, Ben Nicholson's dealer during the 1930s and 40s.
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Cornish Landscape
Details
Ben Nicholson, O.M. (1894-1982)
Cornish Landscape
pencil
9½ x 14 in. (24.1 x 35.6 cm.)
Executed in the summer of 1945.
Cornish Landscape
pencil
9½ x 14 in. (24.1 x 35.6 cm.)
Executed in the summer of 1945.
Provenance
Lily Macdonald.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, 11 June 1982, lot 236a.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, 11 June 1982, lot 236a.
Literature
H. Read, Ben Nicholson Paintings Reliefs Drawings I, London, 1948, pl. 156.
Exhibited
London, Lefevre Gallery, Ben Nicholson: drawings 1921 - 47: paintings and reliefs 1921 - 28, 1946 - 47, May 1947, no. 21.
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