Ben Nicholson
- Introduction
- Benjamin Lauder Nicholson, OM (10 April 1894 – 6 February 1982) was an English painter of abstract compositions (sometimes in low relief), landscape and still-life.
- Wikidata
- Q281637
- Introduction
- A modernist painter and sculptor who adopted the constructivist style in the 1930s, Nicholson is known primarily for his geometric Comment on works: abstract reliefs. He studied at the Slade School of Art 1910-1911, and spent most of the years 1911-1918 abroad. He married the painter Winifred Dacre (née Roberts) in 1920, and began experimenting with Comment on works: abstract painting in 1924. Also in that year he became a member of the Seven and Five Society in 1924 and was elected president in 1926. In 1928, under the influence of Alfred Wallis, he began to paint in a primitive style. He travelled to France in 1932 and 1933 in the company of the sculptor Barbara Hepworth. There he became acquainted with Arp, Miró, Mondrian, and Calder. In 1933 both Nicholson and Hepworth were invited to join the Abstraction-Création Group in Paris. He and Hepworth were married soon after, and during this period Nicholson began to make his signature carved reliefs. In 1937 he co-edited the magazine "Circle" with Naum Gabo. In 1939 he and Hepworth relocated from London to Cornwall. The second world war interrupted their association with the international modernist movement, but Nicholson continued to develop his work, and introduced color to his reliefs and revisted landscape themes. Through the 1950s Nicholson continued to exhibit and garner awards. In 1957 he married Felicitas Vogler. They moved to Ticino in 1958. The Tate Gallery mounted his second retrospective in 1969. He left Vogler and returned to England in 1971, where he continued to work until his death in 1982. Comment on works: abstract
- Nationalities
- British, English
- Gender
- Male
- Roles
- Artist, Painter, Sculptor
- Names
- Ben Nicholson, Benjamin Lauder Nicholson
- Ulan
- 500005137
Exhibitions
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A Century of Artists Books
Oct 23, 1994–Jan 24, 1995
MoMA
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Modern British Drawings: Selections from the Collection
Jun 23–Sep 13, 1994
MoMA
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Three Masters of the Bauhaus: Lyonel Feininger, Vasily Kandinsky, and Paul Klee
Jan 27–May 17, 1994
MoMA
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Miró Prints and Books from New York Collections
Oct 17, 1993–Jan 11, 1994
MoMA
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Still Life Into Object
Nov 22, 1990–Mar 19, 1991
MoMA
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Ben Nicholson has
22 exhibitionsonline.
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Jean (Hans) Arp, Alexander Calder, Giorgio de Chirico, Hans Erni, Max Ernst, Justino Fernández, Alberto Giacometti, Julio González, Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika, Jean Hélion, Vasily Kandinsky, Fernand Léger, Jacques Lipchitz, Alberto Magnelli, Joan Miró, Ben Nicholson, Amédée Ozenfant, Pablo Picasso, Kurt Seligmann, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Joaquín Torres-García, Gérard Vulliamy, Ossip Zadkine, Various Artists 23 Gravures 1930–35, published 1935
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Ben Nicholson Five Circles (plate, folio 35) from 23 Gravures 1934, published 1935
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Ben Nicholson Imperial Airways 1935
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Ben Nicholson Abstract Composition 1936
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Ben Nicholson Painted Relief 1939
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Ben Nicholson Gouache 1938-42 1938-42
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Ben Nicholson Painting 1943 1943
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Ben Nicholson Gouache 1940-43 1940-43
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Pierre Alechinsky, Fred Becker, Letterio Calapai, Willem de Kooning, Peter Grippe, Salvatore Grippi, Stanley William Hayter, Franz Kline, Jacques Lipchitz, Ezio Martinelli, Ben Nicholson, Irene Rice Pereira, Helen Phillips, André Racz, Kurt Roesch, Attilio Salemme, Louis Schanker, Karl Schrag, Esteban Vicente, Adja Yunkers, Various Artists 21 Etchings and Poems 1951–60, published 1960
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Ben Nicholson, Herbert Read In-text plate (folio 15) from 21 Etchings and Poems 1960
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Ben Nicholson Locmariaquer 5 February 1964
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Ben Nicholson Ronco 1968
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Ben Nicholson Two Sculptural Forms 1968
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