Lot 29: BEN NICHOLSON, O.M. (1894-1982), 1943 (Towednack, Cornwall), signed, inscri

BEN NICHOLSON, O.M. (1894-1982), 1943 (Towednack, Cornwall), signed, inscribed and dated 'Towednack, Cornwall/Ben Nicholson/1943/property of/Peter Lanyon' (on the backboard), oil and pencil on board,...

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Exhibited Swindon, no. 16, exhibition not traced, lent by Peter Lanyon.
London, Lefevre Gallery, Ben Nicholson: Paintings & Reliefs 1939-1945, October 1945, no. 26.
New York, British Council, English-Speaking Union of the United States, British Art The Last Fifty Years 1900-1950, January 1951, no. 21.
Berne, Kunsthalle, Ben Nicholson, May - July 1961, no. 43.

Literature: H. Read, Ben Nicholson Paintings, London, 1948, fig. 86.
N. Lynton, Ben Nicholson, London, 1993, p. 192, no. 176, illustrated.
C. Stephens, Peter Lanyon: At the edge of landscape, London, 2000, p. 19, fig. 5, listed as 'whereabouts unknown'.
T. Treves, Peter Lanyon: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings and Three-Dimensional Works, London, 2018, p. 59, illustrated.

Provenance: Purchased directly from the artist by Peter Lanyon in 1944. with Redfern Gallery, London, where purchased by Lady Norton in June 1954. with Marlborough Fine Art, London. with Waddington and Tooth Galleries, London. with Waddington Galleries, London, where purchased by the present owner's father in December 1979.

PROPERTY FORMERLY IN THE COLLECTION OF PETER LANYON