Ingram Reid
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Sir William Nicholson(British, 1872-1949)Roses and Knitting 33 x 40.6 cm. (13 x 16 in.)
18 June 2025, 15:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£70,000 - £100,000
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Modern British & Irish Art
Sir William Nicholson (British, 1872-1949)
Roses and Knitting
signed 'Nicholson' (lower right)
oil on board
33 x 40.6 cm. (13 x 16 in.)
Painted circa 1928
signed 'Nicholson' (lower right)
oil on board
33 x 40.6 cm. (13 x 16 in.)
Painted circa 1928
Footnotes
Provenance
With Beaux Arts Gallery, London, where acquired by
Dame Marie Tempest, thence by descent to
Major Norman Loring
His sale; Christie's, London, 28 July 1955, lot 184
With Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London (acquired from the above sale)
Sir Malcolm Bullock Bt, 1956, thence by descent
Private Collection
Sale; Christie's, London, 1 March 1974, lot 130 (as Vase of Roses with Knife and Knitting)
With Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London (acquired from the above sale)
Sale; Christie's, London, 8 June 1983, lot 40
Ernst K. Litthauer, 1 April 1984, by whom gifted to the family of the present owner
Private Collection, U.K.
Exhibited
London, Beaux Arts Gallery, 1929, cat.no.16
London, Roland, Browse & Delbanco, Colour Pure and Atmospheric, November-December 1956, cat.no.28 (as Roses with Knife and Knitting)
London, Roland, Browse & Delbanco, Distinguished British Paintings 1875-1950, 9 May-15 June 1974, cat.no.39 (as Vase of Roses with Knife and Knitting)
Literature
Patricia Reed, William Nicholson: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, Modern Art Press, London, 2011, p.480, cat.no.605 (ill.b&w)
We are grateful to Patricia Read for her assistance in cataloguing this lot.