Sale 6062
London
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9 December 1998
Price realised
GBP 29,900
Estimate
Ben Nicholson (1894-1982) Tregeseal 3 signed, titled and dated 'Ben Nicholson Oct 57 (TREGESEAL 3)' (on the reverse) painted relief on the artist's prepared board in the artist's frame 13 3/4 x 18in. (35 x 45.5cm.) Executed in October 1957
Provenance
Galerie Charles Lienhard, Zurich
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Exhibited
Brussels, L'Art du XXème Siècle (Lent by the British Arts Council). Zurich, Galerie Charles Lienhard, Ben Nicholson, 1959, no. 48. Hannover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Ben Nicholson, 1959, no. 64.
The title of the work refers to Tregeseal, a small hamlet near St. Just-in-Penwyth in Cornwall.
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