Ben Nicholson

March 55 (Sextant)

Artist's Resale Right

Auction Closed

June 28, 02:51 PM GMT

Estimate

70,000 - 100,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Prominent Private Collection

Ben Nicholson

1894 - 1982

March 55 (Sextant)

signed Ben Nicholson and titled (on the reverse of the board)

pencil and oil on card, laid on the Artist's prepared board

overall (Artist's prepared backboard): 32 by 28.5cm.; 12½ by 11¼in.

framed: 34 by 30cm.; 13½ by 11¾in.

Executed in 1955.

We are grateful to Rachel Smith for her kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.

A catalogue raisonné of Ben Nicholson’s paintings and reliefs is currently being prepared, and the authors encourage owners to be in touch. Please write to Rachel Smith, c/o Sotheby’s Modern & Postwar British Art, Sotheby’s, 34-35 New Bond Street, London, W1A 2AA or email info@bncr.org.uk.

F.L.S. Murray
Marlborough New London Gallery, London, 1964
Mr & Mrs Seymour Sher
Sale, Christie's London, 29 March 1982, lot 45
Waddington Galleries, London
Sale, Sotheby's London, 11 July 2013, lot 4
Macconnal-Mason, London
Acquired by the present owner in 2016

J.P. Hodin, Ben Nicholson: the Meaning of his Art, Alex Tiranti, London, 1957, illustrated fig. 46

Zurich, Galerie Charles Lienhard, Ben Nicholson, January - February 1959, no. 23

Hannover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Ben Nicholson, 26 February – 5 April 1959, no. 43, illustrated, with tour to Stadtische Kunsthalle; Mannheim Kunstverein, Hamburg; and Museum Folkwang, Essen