Ben NICHOLSON OM
Biography – Ben Nicholson OM (1894-1982)
Benjamin Lauder Nicholson was born in 1894 in Denham in Buckinghamshire. He was the son of artists Sir William Nicholson and Mabel Pryde and part of a wider artistic family. He died in Hampstead in 1982.
Education:
He attended Gresham’s School and studied art at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1910-1911 where he met Paul Nash, Stanley Spencer, Nark Gertler and Edward Wadsworth.
He married three times to Winifred Roberts, Barbara Hepworth and Felicitas Vogler.
Ben Nicholson’s artist influences:
During his lifetime he had connections to and was influenced by many artists including Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Mondrian, Picasso, Christopher Wood, Alfred Wallis to name a few.
Ben Nicholson’s artistic styles:
His artistic styles over his career covered Cubism, Abstract Art, Modern Art, Modernism and Constructivism.
Ben Nicholson Awards:
Carnegie Prize 1952
Exhibited:
Tate St Ives
Kettle’s Yard Art Gallery Cambridge
Pallant House Gallery Chichester
National Galleries of Scotland
Ashmolean Museum University of Oxford
Courtauld Instituer of Art
Falmouth Art Gallery
Manchester City Art Gallery
Related Artists : Terry Frost RA, Sir Peter Blake RA & John Piper RA.
WANTED : Ben Nicholson Oils, Watercolours and Prints.
If you have pictures to sell please contact the gallery by email, phone 01590 678230 or by using our buying website: www.british-arts.com
Avoid paying up to 50% in auction fees!
Title: Storm over Paros Signed Etching 1967
Medium: Original etching