Modern British and Irish Art Evening Auction
Modern British and Irish Art Evening Auction
Property from the Collection of Angela Verren Taunt
Design for an Act Drop
Live auction begins on:
June 6, 05:00 PM GMT
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Collection of Angela Verren Taunt
Ben Nicholson
1894 - 1982
Design for an Act Drop
signed Ben Nicholson, dated 1945 and inscribed (on the reverse)
pencil and gouache on Artist's board
unframed (window): 21 by 37 cm.; 8¼ by 14½in.
framed: 39 by 55cm.; 15¼ by 21½in.
Executed in 1945.
We are grateful to Rachel Smith for her kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.
A catalogue raisonné of Ben Nicholson’s paintings and reliefs is currently being prepared, and the authors encourage owners to be in touch. Please write to Rachel Smith, c/o Sotheby’s Modern & Postwar British Art, Sotheby’s, 34-35 New Bond Street, London, W1A 2AA or email info@bncr.org.uk.
Gifted by Ben Nicholson to Angela Verren Taunt
London, The Arts Council, The Arts Council Collection Oil Paintings Part II, 1955, no. 15
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