The Game of Draughts
Mattia Preti
- Art Funded
- 1978
- Dimensions
- 108 x 144 cm
- Vendor
- Executors of Benedict Nicolson
Belonged to Benedict Nicolson and reflects his sympathy for artists exploring dramatic effects of artificial light. This work was purchased after the Art Fund organised a public appeal to set up the Benedict Nicolson fund in memory of Nicolson's long and distinguished editorship of the Burlington Magazine. These funds were then used to help purchase the work for the Ashmolean alongside the Art Fund grant.
Provenance
Benedict Nicolson, by 1954.