BEN NICHOLSON | DEC 63 (YELLOWSTONE HEAD)

Gifted by the Artist to Geoffrey and Jane Grigson and thence by descent

Acquired from the above by the previous owner

Their sale, Sotheby's London, 17th November 2004, lot 132, where acquired by the present owner

Zurich, Galerie Gimpel & Hanover, Ben Nicholson: Recent Work, June - July 1966, cat. no.5 (as 1963 (yellow stone head)).

'The kind of painting I find exciting is not necessarily representational or non-representational, but it is both musical and architectural...' (Ben Nicholson, quoted in Norbert Lynton, Ben Nicholson, Phaidon, London, 1993, p.251).

We are grateful to Dr Lee Beard, author of Ben Nicholson: Writings and Ideas (Lund Humphries, 2019), for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work. Dr Beard is currently preparing the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the Artist’s work and would like to hear from owners of any work by the Artist so that these can be included in this comprehensive catalogue. Please write to Dr Lee Beard, c/o Sotheby’s Modern & Post-War British Art, London, W1A 2AA or email modbrit@sothebys.com.