Catalogue entry
[from] MULCHELNEY [T02337-T02342]
6 reliefs (details as below), enclosed in glass-fronted case, 43 × 48 5/8 × 8 3/4 (109.2 × 123.3 × 22.2)
T02340 VERTICAL WALL 66 1966
Inscribed on reverse ‘Nicholson 66/vertical wall 66’ ‘do not change screwed on frame or its texture or its kind BN’
Oil on millboard, 17 × 10 1/2 × 3/8 (43.2 × 26.2 × 9)
Presented by the artist 1979
Exh: Ben Nicholson, Tate Gallery, June–July 1969 (118) as ‘March 1965’
The artist presented this group of reliefs and paintings [T02337-T02342] to the Gallery to mark the opening of the new extension.
The gallery made a display case to the artist's specifications, within which he positioned each work exactly. Having done so he considered the group as a whole, in this arrangement, to constitute a serendipity and gave it the title ‘Mulchelney’ (Mulchelney, a village in Somerset, contains the remains of a medieval abbey). Nicholson wrote to the compiler in April 1981 that ‘The “place” virtually does not exist but the POETIC idea does exist mentally… (read more)
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