- Artist
- Ben Nicholson OM 1894–1982
- Medium
- Oil paint on board
- Dimensions
- Support: 832 × 197 mm
frame: 920 × 275 × 47 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1940
- Reference
- N05125
Catalogue entry
N05125 GUITAR 1933
Inscr. ‘Ben Nicholson 1933’ on back-board.
Oil on panel, irregular at top, 32 3/4×7 3/4 (83×10·5), mounted on board, 35 1/4×10 (89·5×25).
Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1940.
Coll: Purchased by the C.A.S. 1934.
Exh: Lefevre Gallery, October–November 1933 (29 or 30, repr.), as ‘Panel’; Selected Paintings, Drawings and Pottery lent by the C.A.S., Leicester Galleries, October–November 1939 (63); Venice Biennale, 1954 (British Pavilion, 4); British Council, Amsterdam, Paris, Brussels and Zürich, 1954–5 (7); Tate Gallery, June–July 1955 (12); São Paulo Bienal, Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires, 1957–8 (2); Bern, May–July 1961 (21).
Repr: Read, I, 1948, pl.57; Summerson, 1948, pl.16.
Three other paintings of guitars were executed in 1933: two in the H.S. Ede collection, one of which is repr. Read, I, 1948, pl.49, and one at Leeds, repr. C.A.S. Report 1950. One of the previous year is in the Barbara Hepworth collection and another formerly belonged to R. H. M. Ody, repr. Hodin, 1957, pls.19 and 14 respectively.
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II
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