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Creator:
Ben Nicholson, born in Denham, England, 1894; active in England, Switzerland, and France; died in Hampstead, England, 1982
Title:
1940 (composition)
Date:
between 1940 and 1947
Materials & Techniques:
Gouache and graphite on paper on board
Dimensions:
Frame: 8 7/16 × 8 7/16 × 1 inches (21.5 × 21.5 × 2.5 cm), Sheet: 7 1/2 × 7 1/2 inches (19.1 × 19.1 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Inscribed on verso in graphite, upper center: "TOP" | (gouache); lower right: "Framing <...> 2101"; in blue ink, lower left: "PM4037"

Signed and dated on verso in graphite, upper center: "Ben Nicholson | 1940 | (exec 1947)

Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
© Estate of the Artist
Accession Number:
B2014.5.73
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
abstract art | circle | composition | square
Access:
Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:54410
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Created by Ben Nicholson (1894–1982), the artist; ...; purchased at auction by Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, England, at Sotheby & Co., in London, England, April 12, 1967 (lot 192, ‘Composition 1940–1947), in "Modern British Drawings, Paintings and Sculpture" [a]; purchased by Paul Mellon (1907–1999), 1967 [b]; bequest, to the Yale Center for British Art, 2014.

Citations:
[a] Messrs. Sotheby & Co., Catalogue of Modern British Drawings, Paintings and Sculpture (Sotheby & Co., 1967), 52.
[b] A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2017, p. 5, V2724 (YCBA) https://britishart.yale.edu/exhibitions-programs/decade-gifts-and-acquisitions

A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]

A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2017, p. 5, V2724 (YCBA) [YCBA]


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