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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE DAME JILLY COOPER
SIR WILLIAM NICHOLSON (1872-1949)
Diana in the Corn
Details
SIR WILLIAM NICHOLSON (1872-1949)
Diana in the Corn
signed 'Nicholson' (lower right)
oil on canvas-board
13 x 16 in. (33 x 40.6 cm.)
Painted circa 1932.
Diana in the Corn
signed 'Nicholson' (lower right)
oil on canvas-board
13 x 16 in. (33 x 40.6 cm.)
Painted circa 1932.
Provenance
Sir Hugh Reid.
His estate sale; Christie's, London, 20 March 1936, lot 127.
Thomas Evelyn Scott-Ellis, 8th Baron Howard de Walden, by 1938.
Captain R.A. Peto, by 1956, and by descent to Mrs Rosemary Peto.
with Jonathan Clark Fine Art, London, where purchased by Dame Jilly Cooper in May 1994.
His estate sale; Christie's, London, 20 March 1936, lot 127.
Thomas Evelyn Scott-Ellis, 8th Baron Howard de Walden, by 1938.
Captain R.A. Peto, by 1956, and by descent to Mrs Rosemary Peto.
with Jonathan Clark Fine Art, London, where purchased by Dame Jilly Cooper in May 1994.
Literature
L. Browse, William Nicholson, London, 1956, p. 54, no. 124, as 'Girl in a Cornfield', incorrectly dated as '1913'.
J. Cooper, Financial Times, 13 January 1996.
P. Reed, William Nicholson: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, London, 2011, p. 527, no. 678, illustrated.
J. Cooper, Financial Times, 13 January 1996.
P. Reed, William Nicholson: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, London, 2011, p. 527, no. 678, illustrated.
Exhibited
London, Leicester Galleries, Recent Paintings by William Nicholson, May - June 1934, no. 104.
Cardiff, National Museum of Wales, Exhibition of Paintings by Contemporary Artists, November 1938, no. 43.
London, Marlborough Fine Art, Sir William Nicholson, March 1967, no. 12, as 'Girl in a Cornfield'.
Cardiff, National Museum of Wales, Exhibition of Paintings by Contemporary Artists, November 1938, no. 43.
London, Marlborough Fine Art, Sir William Nicholson, March 1967, no. 12, as 'Girl in a Cornfield'.
Further details
We are very grateful to Patricia Reed for her assistance in cataloguing this lot.
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