‡Ben Nicholson OM (1894-1982) Banks Head, Cumberland Signed, dated and inscribed BANKSHEAD Ben Nicholson 1926 (to old backing board), and further inscribed given to David Sept 1961/from W.Nicholson/Boothby/Brompton/Cumberland (to a further piece of old backing board) Pencil 35.4 x 51cm Provenance: Winifred Nicholson (1893-1981); By descent to a private collection; Bonningtons, Epping, Fine Art & Antiques, 27 June 2018, lot 101 In 1923, Ben Nicholson and his wife Winifred settled at Banks Head in Cumberland (now Cumbria), a seventeenth-century farmhouse near Hadrian's Wall. They shared the house until 1931 and it remained Winifred's home for the rest of her life. The view is from the master bedroom, which is also the subject of a number of Ben Nicholson's oil paintings, see for example '1925 (Banks Head looking east)' (Peter Khoroche, Ben Nicholson (London, Phaidon, 1993), p.27). Read more »
‡Ben Nicholson OM (1894-1982) Banks Head, Cumberland Signed, dated and inscribed BANKSHEAD Ben Nicholson 1926 (to old backing board), and further inscribed given to David Sept 1961/from W.Nicholson/Boothby/Brompton/Cumberland (to a further piece of old backing board) Pencil 35.4 x 51cm Provenance: Winifred Nicholson (1893-1981); By descent to a private collection; Bonningtons, Epping, Fine Art & Antiques, 27 June 2018, lot 101 In 1923, Ben Nicholson and his wife Winifred settled at Banks Head in Cumberland (now Cumbria), a seventeenth-century farmhouse near Hadrian's Wall. They shared the house until 1931 and it remained Winifred's home for the rest of her life. The view is from the master bedroom, which is also the subject of a number of Ben Nicholson's oil paintings, see for example '1925 (Banks Head looking east)' (Peter Khoroche, Ben Nicholson (London, Phaidon, 1993), p.27). Read more »
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