Ben Nicholson

Sept.53 (Balearic)

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1,500,000 - 2,500,000 GBP

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Ben Nicholson

1894 - 1982

Sept. 53 (Balearic)

signed Ben Nicholson, titled Sept 14-53 (Balearic), dated and inscribed (on the canvas overlap)

oil and pencil on canvas in Artist's frame

unframed: 109 by 121.5cm.; 43 by 48in.

framed: 138 by 150.5cm.; 54¼ by 59½in.

Executed on 14 September 1953.

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.

Cyril S. Reddihough, Esq., Ilkley, Yorkshire, by 1954

Gimpel Fils Gallery, London, by 1962

Anonymous sale, Christie's London, 23 June 1997, lot 42, where acquired by the previous owner

Their sale, Christie's New York, 1 November 2011, lot 67, where acquired by the present owner

Venice, XXVII Biennale, June - October 1954, no. 465

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Ben Nicholson, 1954, no. 56, with tour to Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris; Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels and Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich

London, Tate Gallery, Ben Nicholson: A Retrospective Exhibition, June - July 1955, no. 59

Zürich, Galerie Charles Lienhard, Ben Nicholson, January - August 1959, no. 20, with tour to Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover; Städtische Kunsthalle, Mannheim; Kunstverein, Hamburg and Folkwang Museum, Essenno

Bern, Kunsthalle, Ben Nicholson, May - July 1961, no. 60

Glasgow, Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts (on extended loan, 1961)

Eindhoven, Stedelijk van Abbe-Museum, Kompas III, December - February 1962, no. 60

London, Gimpel Fils Gallery, A Decade with Ben Nicholson, April 1963, no. 12

Bottrop, Moderne Galerie, Ben Nicholson, October - December 1989, no. 19, illustrated in the exh. cat.

Paris, Galerie Marwan Hoss, Hommage à Ben Nicholson, October - November 1990

Mendrisio, Museo d'arte Mendrisio, Ben Nicholson opere dal 1921 al 1981, April - June 1993, illustrated in the exh. cat.

Barcelona, Fundació 'La Caixa', Europa de Postguerra 1945-1965, Art Després del Diluvi, May - July 1995, no. 148

Herbert Read, ed., Ben Nicholson: Work Since 1947, London, 1956, vol. 2, no. 94, illustrated

Jeremy Lewison, Ben Nicholson, Oxford, 1991, no. 122, illustrated p. 128

Norbert Lynton, Ben Nicholson, London, 1993, p. 271, illustrated pl. 257