Sir William Nicholson (1872-1949)

Our Window, La Rochelle

Details

Sir William Nicholson (1872-1949)
Our Window, La Rochelle
signed with an initial '.N.' (lower right)
oil on panel
17½ x 14 in. (44.4 x 35.6 cm.)
Painted in 1938

Provenance

Miss Clarissa Bell, by whom purchased at the 1943 exhibition.

Literature

M. Steen, William Nicholson, London, 1943, illustrated opposite p.112.
L. Browse, William Nicholson, London, 1956, no.550.

Exhibited

London, Leicester Galleries, Sir William Nicholson, April 1943, no.48 as 'Our Window'.

Lot Essay

Nicholson and Marguerite Steen spent the greater part of 1938 and up to the spring of 1939 painting in France. Nicholson wrote to his son Ben in March 1939 that he lived in a charming flat at La Rochelle, and the present work depicts the street below with the painter's hat and coat on the left corner of the windowsill.
(see A. Nicholson (Ed.), William Nicholson Painter, London, 1996, p.261.)

We are very grateful to Patricia Reed for her assistance in cataloguing this lot.

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