Ben Nicholson OM

Dec 62 (interlocking)

1962

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Artist: Ben Nicholson OM 1894–1982
Medium: Graphite and oil wash on paper mounted on painted hardboard
Dimensions: Support: 349 × 292 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Presented by the Friends of the Tate Gallery 1963
Reference: T00588

Catalogue entry

T00588 DEC 62 (INTERLOCKING) 1962

Inscr. on back, ‘Nicholson Dec 1962 (interlocking) ph 493’.
Pencil and oil wash on paper, irregular, maximum dimensions, 13 3/4×11 1/2 (35×29·25), mounted on painted hardboard, 20 3/4×18 7/8 (53×48).
Presented by the Friends of the Tate Gallery 1963.
Coll: Purchased by the Friends of the Tate Gallery from the artist through the Marlborough Fine Art Ltd 1963.
Exh: Marlborough New London Gallery, April–May 1963 (58, repr.).

On the back of the sheet of paper there is a slight pencil sketch inscribed ‘Ben Nicholson Dec 62’ and ‘V’.

Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II