Ben Nicholson

Ben Nicholson

1894 — 1982

British painter (1894-1982)

Benjamin Lauder Nicholson, OM was an English painter of abstract compositions, landscapes, and still-life. He was one of the leading promoters of abstract art in England.

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1925–26 (snowscape)

Ben Nicholson Kettle's Yard

1932–33 (musical instruments)

Ben Nicholson Kettle's Yard

1933 (guitar)

Ben Nicholson Kettle's Yard

1946–47 (project for two forms)

Ben Nicholson Herbert Art Gallery and Museum

Abstract Composition

Ben Nicholson Los Angeles County Museum of Art

c.1922 (Balearic Islands)

Ben Nicholson Kettle's Yard

c.1926 (apples)

Ben Nicholson Kettle's Yard

date unknown (ivory still life)

date unknown (small red diamond)

Ben Nicholson Pallant House Gallery

December 1955 (night façade)

Ben Nicholson Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

February 1956 (menhir)

Ben Nicholson Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Gouache 1938-42

Gouache 1940-43

Horizontale Steinlandschaft

Ben Nicholson Sprengel Museum

Locmariaquer 5

March 1962 (Argos)

Ben Nicholson Kettle's Yard

May 1958 (Ronco 2 circles)

Ben Nicholson Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

May 1965 (white relief - Vasilios 2)

Ben Nicholson Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

Silber-Linie

Ben Nicholson Sprengel Museum

Still Life

Still-life: Abelard and Heloise

Untitled

Ben Nicholson Sprengel Museum

1932–40 (still-life)

Ben Nicholson Pier Arts Centre

1939–41 (winter landscape - Halsetown)

Ben Nicholson Ferens Art Gallery

1946–50 (still life)

1914 (the striped jug)

Ben Nicholson Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery

1917 (portrait of Edie)

1921 - circa 1923 (Cortivallo, Lugano)

1924 (first abstract painting, Chelsea)

1927 (Winifred and Jake)

Ben Nicholson Pallant House Gallery

1922 (bread)

1922 (Cold Fell)

Ben Nicholson Abbot Hall Art Gallery

1923 (Castagnola)

Ben Nicholson Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

1924 (Bertha No. 2)

Ben Nicholson Kettle's Yard

1924 (goblet and two pears)

Ben Nicholson Kettle's Yard

1925 (jar and goblet)

Ben Nicholson Kettle's Yard

1926 (still life with fruit – version 2)

1926 (still life – L.L.)

May 1927 (still life with knife and lemon)

Ben Nicholson Kettle's Yard

Still-life

Ben Nicholson Israel Museum

1928 (foothills, Cumberland)

1928 (Walton Wood cottage, no. 1)

Ben Nicholson Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

c.1928 (Cumbrian landscape)

Ben Nicholson Kettle's Yard

c.1930 (Cornish port)

Ben Nicholson Kettle's Yard

Still Life with Jug

Ben Nicholson Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía

1929 (fireworks)

Ben Nicholson Pier Arts Centre

Composition

1930 (Christmas night)

Ben Nicholson Kettle's Yard

1930 (Cumberland farm)

1930 (plate, cup and jug)

Ben Nicholson Kettle's Yard

1930 (Porthmeor Beach)

Ben Nicholson Bristol City Museum & Art Gallery

Playing Card

1930–1936 (composition: still-life)

Ben Nicholson Abbot Hall Art Gallery

1931–1936 (still life – Greek landscape)

1934-6 (painting - still life)

1931 (St Ives Bay: sea with boats)

Ben Nicholson Manchester Art Gallery

1932 (Au Chat Botté)

Ben Nicholson Manchester Art Gallery

1932 (Auberge de la Sole Dieppoise)

1932 (Bocque)

Ben Nicholson Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre

1932 (crowned head: the queen)

Ben Nicholson Abbot Hall Art Gallery

1932 (head and mug in a Greek landscape)

1932 (Le Quotidien)

1932 (painting)

1932 (prince and princess)

Ben Nicholson Walker Art Gallery

1932 (profile: Venetian red)

Ben Nicholson Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

1932 (Talc de Coty)

Ben Nicholson Pier Arts Centre

c.1932 (Bistre 11)

Still Life

Ben Nicholson Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

1933 (composition in black and white)

Ben Nicholson Museum & Art Swindon

1933 (design)

Ben Nicholson Laing Art Gallery

1933 (guitar)

1933 (Piquet)

Ben Nicholson Hepworth Wakefield

1933 (St Rémy - self-portrait with Barbara Hepworth)

Ben Nicholson National Portrait Gallery

1933 (study of a head)

Ben Nicholson Falmouth Art Gallery

Coin and Musical Instruments

Ben Nicholson Metropolitan Museum of Art

Exhibition Sign

Ben Nicholson Kettle's Yard

Jan 27 1933

1934 (1st scheme for Massine ballet)

Ben Nicholson Kettle's Yard

1934 (painted relief)

1934 (painting)

Ben Nicholson Pier Arts Centre

1934 (relief)

Ben Nicholson Kettle's Yard

1934 (still life - Birdie)

Ben Nicholson York Art Gallery

1934 project for Massine for Beethoven 7th Symphony Ballet

St. Ives Cornwall, Composition

Ben Nicholson Saint Louis Art Museum

Still Life

1935 (painting)

Ben Nicholson Pier Arts Centre

1935 (painting)

1935 (white relief)

Ben Nicholson Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

1935 (white relief)

1936 (white relief)

Ben Nicholson Dallas Museum of Art

Painting

1937 (painting)

Ben Nicholson Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

1937 (relief)

June 1937 (painting)

Painting 1937

Ben Nicholson Courtauld Gallery

1938

Ben Nicholson National Gallery of Victoria

1938 (composition)

1939 (composition)

Ben Nicholson Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

1939 (painted relief)

Ben Nicholson Pier Arts Centre

1940 (Cornish landscape)

Ben Nicholson Bolton Museum

Composition

Ben Nicholson Cleveland Museum of Art

Painted Relief (painted relief - Plover's egg blue)

Ben Nicholson Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

1940–42 (two forms)

Ben Nicholson Southampton City Art Gallery

1940–43 (two forms)

Ben Nicholson National Museum Cardiff

1943-45 (St Ives, Cornwall)

1944–45 (painted relief - Arabian desert)

1944–5 (painted relief)

Ben Nicholson Pier Arts Centre

c.1946–1947 (3 circles)

Ben Nicholson Pier Arts Centre

Composition, Abstract Squares

1941 (relief)

Ben Nicholson Cleveland Museum of Art

Untitled

Ben Nicholson Metropolitan Museum of Art

Painting 1943

Project

1944 (three mugs)

Ben Nicholson Kettle's Yard

1945 (2 circles)

Ben Nicholson Pier Arts Centre

1945 (painting)

Ben Nicholson Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

1945 (still life with flag)

Ben Nicholson Ashmolean Museum

1945 (still life)

Still Life

Ben Nicholson Buffalo AKG Art Museum

1946 (composition, still life)

Ben Nicholson Manchester Art Gallery

1946 (still life - Alice through the looking ...

Ben Nicholson Art Gallery of New South Wales

1946 (Still Life – Cerulean)

Ben Nicholson Pallant House Gallery

1946 (still life)

Ben Nicholson Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre

1946 (window in Cornwall)

Ben Nicholson Whitworth Art Gallery

still life 1946

Ben Nicholson Cleveland Museum of Art

11 November 1947 (Mousehole)

14 March 47 (still life on table)

December 13-17 1947 (Trendine 2)

Ben Nicholson The Phillips Collection

February 2 1947 (painting J.L.M.)

July 22–47 (Still Life, Odyssey)

Mousehole, Cornwall

1948 (still life)

Jan 20 1948 (still life, Newlyn)

July 15 1949 (St Ives harbour)

March 1949 (Trencrom)

Nov 21-49 (bird)

Ben Nicholson San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Ben Nicholson Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp

1950 (still life - Dolomites)

1950 (still life)

Ben Nicholson Manchester Art Gallery

April 1950 (goblets)

March 17 1950 (still life)

Ben Nicholson The Phillips Collection

March 1950 (still life - Castagnola)

November 3 1950 (still life winter)

Ben Nicholson The Phillips Collection

Still Life

Ben Nicholson Detroit Institute of Arts

1951 (goblets)

Ben Nicholson Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery

December 1951 (St Ives - oval and steeple)

Ben Nicholson Bristol City Museum & Art Gallery

Festival of Britain Mural

Still Life (sweet peas)

12 October 1952

Ben Nicholson Glynn Vivian Art Gallery

1952 (Tula)

Ben Nicholson Kettle's Yard

Ides of March

Ben Nicholson Toledo Museum of Art

June 4-52 (tableform)

Ben Nicholson Buffalo AKG Art Museum

Oct-52 (lichen)

Ben Nicholson Pier Arts Centre

Dust Blue

Ben Nicholson Harvard Art Museums

Feb 28-53 (vertical seconds)

February 1953 (contrapuntal)

Ben Nicholson Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre

July 27-53 (ivory)

1954 (winter: white Seal)

Ben Nicholson The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Blue seven

Feb 2-54

Feb. 18--54 (Azure)

Ben Nicholson Carnegie Museum of Art

Sept 8-54 (Torcello)

April 1955 (Celtic)

Ben Nicholson Cincinnati Art Museum

Construction with Green

Ben Nicholson Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec

Deep Persian Lilac

Ben Nicholson Rhode Island School of Design Museum

February 1955 (talisman)

Ben Nicholson The Phillips Collection

March 1955 (Campanile)

May 1955 (Gwithian)

Ben Nicholson National Museum of Fine Arts

Ben Nicholson National Museum of Fine Arts

August 1956 (Val d’Orcia)

May 1956 (hendrifter)

Ben Nicholson Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre

1936 (White Relief), second version, 1957

Ben Nicholson Fitzwilliam Museum

1957 (Boscastle)

1957 (still life)

Ben Nicholson Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

April 1957 (Celestial Blue)

Ben Nicholson Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Brown and Grey, Feb. 1957

January 1957 (Goblets in Shadow)

Quinta Achada

Ben Nicholson Neue Nationalgalerie

Half Moon

Ben Nicholson Saint Louis Art Museum

September 1960 (wood)

Galileo, February 1961

June 1961 (green goblet and blue square)

Ben Nicholson Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

November 1961 E

Ben Nicholson Harvard Art Museums

1962 (blue Paros)

Ben Nicholson Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

1962 (still life)

December 1962 (beaver-blue)

Ben Nicholson Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

January 1962 (white relief - Paros)

Ben Nicholson Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

July 62 (cool moon)

May 1962 (Urbino - footsteps in the dust)

Ben Nicholson Ateneum

Four Squares, Two Circles

March 1963 (Archimedes)

1963, August (two mugs, one blue)

1964 (stone blocks, 2 circles and red)

August 1964 (Racciano)

May 64 (Kepler)

1966 (greystone)

Ben Nicholson Southampton City Art Gallery

1966 (Parthenon)

1966 (Zennor Quoit 2)

Ben Nicholson The Phillips Collection

1967 (an almost green circle)

Ben Nicholson Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

Dordogne No. 4

Ben Nicholson Israel Museum

1969 (Arncliffe)

1969 (Holkham Sands No. 1)

Ben Nicholson National Gallery of Art

1969 (winter blue)

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1970 (invisible circle)

Ben Nicholson Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

Peru

Ben Nicholson Bavarian State Painting Collections

1971 (Piero)

Ben Nicholson Manchester Art Gallery

1972 (Madingley no. 3)

1974 (Lucignano)

Spanners Carnac (Tools series)

Nov 78 (forms)

Nov 78 (strange landscape)

20 April 1979 (vertical stripe)

Ivory, 1979

Ben Nicholson Fitzwilliam Museum

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