LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

35.5 x 30.5 cm.

Description:

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Markings:

signed with initial '.N.' (upper left), signed again and dated 'Nicholson/1920.' (on the reverse)

Exhibited:

London, Grosvenor Galleries, Winter Exhibition, 1921, no. 48, as 'The Wellington Jug'.London, Leicester Galleries, Summer Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture by Artists of Fame and Promise, 1940, no. 56.London, National Gallery, Exhibition of Paintings by Sir William Nicholson and Jack B. Yeats, January - March 1942, no. 53.London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Sir William Nicholson: Paintings, Woodcuts and Lithographs, June - November 1947, no. 20. London, Browse & Darby, William Nicholson 1872-1949, March - April 1990, no. 17.London, Browse & Darby, William Nicholson 1872-1949: A Particular Painter, April - May 2011, no. 19.

Literature:

K. Clark (ed.), The Penguin Modern Painters: William Nicholson, Middlesex, 1948, pl. 5.L. Browse, William Nicholson, London, 1956, p. 72, no. 240.Exhibition catalogue, William Nicholson 1872-1949, London, Browse & Darby, 1990, n.p., no. 17, illustrated.Exhibition catalogue, William Nicholson 1872-1949: A Particular Painter, London, Browse & Darby, 2011, n.p., no. 19, illustrated.Exhibition catalogue, William Nicholson (1872-1949): British Painter and Printmaker, London, Royal Academy, 2004, pp. 30-31, 157, fig. 25.P. Reed, William Nicholson: Catalogue Raisonn of the Oil Paintings, London, 2011, p. 377, no. 451, illustrated.

Provenance:

A gift from the artist to Marie Laquelle.with Leicester Galleries, London, 1939.Miss Vivien Leigh by 1947, and by descent to Suzanne Farrington.Anonymous sale, Bonhams, London, 12 March 1981, lot 113.Walter Feilchenfeldt, 1981.with Browse & Darby, London, where purchased by the present owner in January 1989.