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1934 (painting)
1934 (painting)
Kunstpalast - LVR-ZMB - Annette Hiller - ARTOTHEK Ben Nicholson © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

1934 (painting), 1934

“I love this work because it doesn’t remind me of anything real. Simply colours and shapes, harmonies and dissonances, weights and counterweights.” Harry Schmitz, Finance Director
ArtistBen Nicholson, Denham 1894–1982 London
Mixed media on canvas
(H x W)71,5 × 102 cm
Status
on display, room 025
About the workThis clearly structured painting by British artist Ben Nicholson stands alongside several white reliefs with similar arrangements of circles and rectangles. It was in the 1930s that Nicholson first became deeply preoccupied with geometric forms. At that time, he had just met his future second wife, the sculptor Barbara Hepworth, whose abstract works influenced him. The couple lived in Cornwall. As a refuge for many artists, this region in south-west England became a hub for modern art during the Second World War.
AccessionAcquisition 1979
Provenance[...]; Juni 1979 angekauft von Crane Kalman Gallery, London
Inventory number0.1979.52
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