Lot: 466

Ben Nicholson* (1894 - 1982)
'Sept.58 (column)', 1958

Mixed media on paper, 51.5 x 25 cm. Pencil and pastel on paper on hardboard prepared by the artist. Signed and illegibly inscribed on the reverse: Ben Nicholson Sept 58. Inscribed on several labels on the back of the frame: among others, Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim / Exhibition 18.4.–18.5.1959 / No. 91 / and Galerie Charles Lienhard Zurich / KESTNER GESELLSCHAFT HANNOVER 1959, as well as KOLLER AUKTIONEN / A213. Framed behind glass and described as such.

Exhibitions: Mannheim 1959, Ben Nicholson, Städtische Kunsthalle, 18.4.–18.5.1959, No. 91 (label on the reverse). – Zurich 1959, Ben Nicholson, Galerie Charles Lienhard, 3.1.–7.2.1959, No. 95 (label on the reverse). – Kaiserslautern 1976, 20th-Century Art from the F. Collection, Pfalzgalerie, February 15–March 14, 1976, no. 247. – Kiel 1974, Watercolors, Drawings, and 20th-Century Prints from the Collection of a Kiel Resident. Exhibition commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Schleswig-Holstein State Fire Insurance Fund, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, February 3–March 3, 1974, no. 132 (with ill. p. 101).

Provenance: Ben Nicholson, Brissago. – Felicitas Vogler-Nicholson Collection, Brissago/Vevey. – Emil Frey Collection, Mannheim. – Private collection, Germany. – Auction Ketterer Kunst, Munich, July 17, 2020, Lot 54. – Private collection, Germany, acquired in the above auction. – Private collection, Germany.

Reserve price: 7,000 €

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