Modern British & Irish Art Day Auction
Modern British & Irish Art Day Auction
Property from the Collection of Joanna Matthews
Ben Nicholson
Desoglin
Session begins in
November 15, 01:30 PM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
Bid
22,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Collection of Joanna Matthews
Ben Nicholson
1894-1982
Desoglin
oil and pencil on canvas, in the Artist's hand-made frame
unframed: 38.5 by 55.5cm.; 15 by 22in.
framed: 45 by 63cm.; 17¾ by 24¾in.
We are grateful to Rachel Smith for her kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.
The present work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Ben Nicholson’s paintings and reliefs, which is currently being prepared. The authors encourage any other 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.
Alex. Reid & Lefevre, London, where acquired by the Mother of the present owner
Wilfrid Roberts (brother of Winifred Nicholson), Brampton, by whom gifted to the present owner, 12 December 1988
London, Alex. Reid & Lefevre, Paintings by Ben and Winifred Nicholson and Pottery by Staite Murray, July 1928, no. 21
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