Prince and Princess
Artist: Ben Nicholson (1894 - 1982)
Location: Walker Art Gallery
Date: 1932
Materials: oil and pencil
Dimensions: 30 x 47 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £43,667 (Total: £140,000)
Vendor: Private collector
Review number: 3924 (1993)
Provenance:
Sir Michael Sadler; his sale at the Leicester Galleries, January 1944; Sir John Summerson; J.Aboulafia from whom it was bought by the vendor in 1989.
Description:
In this work, Nicholson abandoned traditional picture space, tipping up the abstract arrangement of outlined forms flat against the picture plane. The stylised profiles are portraits of himself (right) and Barbara Hepworth (left).
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