Lot 159: BEN NICHOLSON, O.M. (1894-1982) - aug 58 (2 circles & green)

BEN NICHOLSON, O.M. (1894-1982)
aug 58 (2 circles & green)
signed, inscribed and dated 'Ben Nicholson/aug 58/(2 circles & green)' (on the
reverse)
oil wash and pencil on carved board, relief, on the artist's prepared board
18 1/2 x 24 1/8 in. (47 x 61.6 cm.)
Painted in 1958.


PROVENANCE:
with Lorenzelli Arte, Milan.
Private collection, Milan, from whom purchased by the present owner circa
1990.
EXHIBITED:
Zurich, Galerie Charles Lienhard, Ben Nicholson, February 1959, no. 66.
Hanover, Kestner Gesellschaft, Ben Nicholson, February - April 1959, no. 75:
this exhibition travelled to Mannheim, Städtische Kunsthalle, April - May 1959;
Hamburg, Kunstverein, May - July 1959; and Essen, Museum Folkwang, July -
August 1959.
Milan, Galleria Lorenzelli, 1961, catalogue not traced.
Milan, Galleria Lorenzelli, 44 Protagonisti della Visualità Strutturata, April - June
1964, catalogue not traced.