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William Nicholson 1872-1949 Hoare’s Fields, Warminster Downs 1925/6 Oil on canvas board 13 x 16 inches (33 x 40.5 cm) Signed b.l. PROVENANCE With Roland, Browse & Delbanco by 1948; Mrs A.S. Pryor by 1956 and thence by descent. EXHIBITED Pictures and Drawings by William Nicholson, Beaux Arts Gallery, London, June-July 1927 (12, as ‘Wiltshire Downs’); Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by William Nicholson, Nottingham Museum & Art Gallery, March-April, Beaux Arts Gallery, London, May-June 1933, (70); Works by William Nicholson, Manchester City Art Gallery, Platt Hall, June-July, Scarborough Public Library, August-September 1933 (55, as ‘Hoar’s Fields, Warminster’); Exhibition of Paintings and Lithographs by William Nicholson, Public Art Gallery, Folkestone, October-November 1933 (21); Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Prints by William Nicholson, Belfast Municipal Art Gallery, February 1933 (43); Recent Paintings by William Nicholson, The Leicester Galleries, London, May-June 1934 (21); Exhibition of early Paintings by Richard Sickert and William Nicholson, Beaux Art Gallery, London, May 1939 (34, as ‘Hoar’s Fields, Sutton Veny’); Exhibition of Paintings from the Beaux Arts Gallery by Sir William Nicholson, Richard Sickert, and other Eminent Artists, Lord Weymouth’s Grammar School, Warminster, February-March 1941 (7, as ‘Hoar’s Fields, Warminster’). LITERATURE Patricia Reid, William Nicholson: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, New Haven & London 2011 no.532 reproduced; Lilian Browse, William Nicholson, London 1956 no.310 as ‘Hoar’s Fields, Warminster Downs’. |
William Nicholson in his Studio c.1920