Catalogue entry
T04862 vertical stripe 20 April 1979 1979
Felt-tip pen and oil on hardboard 730 × 553 (28 3/4 × 21 3/4) on hardboard 1015 × 838 (40 × 33)
Inscribed ‘Nicholson | april 20–79 | (vertical stripe)’ on back of hardboard t.r. and various other inscriptions
Accepted by the Commissioners of Inland Revenue in lieu of tax and allocated 1986
Prov: Estate of the artist
Exh: Ben Nicholson: Recent Works, Waddington Galleries, July 1980 (64, repr. in col.); Ben Nicholson Memorial Display, Tate Gallery, April–May 1982 (no catalogue, no number)
Repr: Jeremy Lewison, Ben Nicholson, 1991, no.142 (col.)
This is one of a series of small late works by Nicholson depicting still life objects, principally in outline. Although executed mainly in black felt-tip pen on a ground of off-white oil paint, the surface is stained in places with turquoise, pink-grey, yellow-brown and blue grey… (read more)
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