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A Sense of Form: Property from a Private British Collection

Ben Nicholson

1972 (COMPOSITION)

Lot Closed

November 17, 03:29 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 8,000 GBP

Lot Details

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A Sense of Form: Property from a Private British Collection

BEN NICHOLSON

1894 - 1982

1972 (COMPOSITION)


signed Nicholson, dated 72 and dedicated Jean & Norman / happy 1976 / from A & B (verso)

pencil, ink and oil wash on shaped paper

unframed: 15.5 by 33cm.; 6 by 13in.

framed: 41 by 45cm.; 16¼ by 17¾in.

Executed in 1972.


We are grateful to Dr Rachel Smith and Dr Lee Beard, authors of the forthcoming catalogue raisonné for Ben Nicholson, for their kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.

Gifted by the Artist to Sir Norman and Jean Reid in 1976, and thence by descent

Sale, Christie's, London, 16 July 2014, lot 141, where acquired by the present owner