Sept 58 (column). 1958.
Pencil drawing and watercolor.
Verso signed, dated "Sept 58" and barely legibly inscribed. On creme wove paper. 40.3 x 15 cm (15.8 x 5.9 in), size of sheet.
Verso with a fragment of a pencil drawing. [CH].
• Formerly part of the collection of Felicitas Vogler-Nicholson (artist‘s wife from 1957to 1977)
• With an exhibition history that goes back to the 1950s
• In 1955 honored in a grand retrospective exhibition at Tate Gallery London
• Recipient of the very first Guggenheim International Award in 1956
• Other works from the 1950s are in the collections of Tate Britain, Tate Modern and Tate St. Ives.

We are grateful to Dr. Lee Beard for his kind assistance in cataloging this lot.

PROVENANCE: Collection Felicitas Vogler-Nicholson, Brissago/Vevey.
Private collection Southern Germany, ever since family-owned.

EXHIBITION: Ben Nicholson, Galerie Charles Lienhard, Zürich, January 3 - February 7, 1959, cat. no. 95 (with a gallery label on rear of the frame).
Ben Nicholson, Städtische Kunsthalle, Mannheim, April 18 - May 18, 1959 (cat. no. 91).
Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Druckgraphik des 20. Jahrhunderts aus der Sammlung eines Kielers. Ausstellung zum 100. Jubiläum der Schleswig-Holsteinischen Landesbrandkasse, Kunsthalle zu Kiel/ Schleswig Holsteinischer Kunstverein, February 3 - March 3, 1974, cat. no. 132 (with black-and-white illu., p. 101).
Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts aus der Sammlung F., Pfalzgalerie, Kaiserslautern, February 15 - March 14, 1976, cat. no. 247.

LITERATURE: Heinz Fuchs, Gaben des Augenblicks. 44 unveröffentlichte Zeichnungen und Aquarelle aus der Sammlung E. Frey, Munich 1964, pp. 86 f. (with full-page color illu.).