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Creator:
Ben Nicholson, born in Denham, England, 1894; active in England, Switzerland, and France; died in Hampstead, England, 1982
Title:
February 1957 (brown and grey)
Date:
1957
Materials & Techniques:
Oil and graphite on panel
Dimensions:
8 × 7 inches (20.3 × 17.8 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
© Estate of the Artist
Accession Number:
B2014.5.5
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
abstract art
Access:
Not on view
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:54279
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Created by Ben Nicholson (1894–1982), the artist; ...; acquired by Ethel M. Russell (née King) (1895–1971), Newport, RI, United States [a]; purchased by John Baskett, London, England at Christie, Manson & Woods, in London, England, November 21, 1969 (lot 157, ‘Brown and Grey’), in "Modern British Drawings, Paintings, and Sculpture" for Paul Mellon (1907–1999) [b]; bequest, to the Yale Center for British Art, 2014.

Citations:
[a] Christie, Manson & Woods, Catalogue of Modern British Drawings, Paintings, and Sculpture (Christie, Manson & Woods, 1969), 45.
[b] Ibid.

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