In 1924, Ben Nicholson became a member of the Seven and Five Society and gradually pulled the society into bolder, more experimental territory as his own work became more unequivocally abstract. In this painting from 1934, the two lively circles have a wild, kinetic presence. Nicholson had visited the Paris studio of the sculptor Alexander Calder a year earlier, and the forms of this still life echo the jaunty velocity of Calder’s mobiles. Gallery label for A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13)