3 Aspects

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Winifred Nicholson (1893-1981)
3 Aspects
signed, inscribed and dated '3 Aspects/Winifred Nicholson/1973' (on a label attached to the backboard)
coloured crayon and oil on board
20 x 25½ in. (50.8 x 64.7 cm.)

Provenance

The artist's estate.
Jake Nicholson, his sale, Crane Kalman Gallery, London.
Purchased by the present owner at the 1987 exhibition.

Exhibited

London, Crane Kalman Gallery, A Tribute to Winifred Nicholson and her Circle, June - July 1987.

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Lot Essay

'I like painting flowers - I have tried to paint many things in many different ways, but my paint brush always gives a tremor of pleasure when I let it paint a flower and I think that I know why this is so' (The Flowers of Winifred Nicholson, London, Crane Kalman Gallery, 1969 and Unknown Colour, Andrew Nicholson (ed.), London, 1987, p. 216). She continued, 'Flowers mean different things to different people ... To me they are the secret of the Cosmos. This secret cannot be put into image, far less into the smallness of words. But I try to'.

J.N.

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