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Biography
British painter and sculptor who studied at the Slade School of Art between 1910 and 1911. Between 1912 and 1918, he travelled abroad and only after 1920 began to concentrate on painting, under the strong influence of Modernism. On his visits to Paris, Nicholson discovered modernist ideas: the works of the Italian Primitives and the African tribes as well as the painting of Cézanne, Rousseau, Picasso, Matisse and Braque. In 1924, he was invited to be a member of the 7 & 5 Society and held his first one-man show at the Twenty-One Gallery in London. His interest in Cubism is clear in a number of his works of this period and is implicit in some dating from later periods. It was in 1924 that Nicholson experimented for the first time with Abstract painting. Between 1932 and 1933, he went on various visits to Paris where he discovered the work of such artists as Arp, Miró, Mondrian and Calder. In 1933 he was invited, together with Barbara Hepworth, to join the Abstraction-Création and Unit One groups. During the 50s, his work was recognised through the awarding of various international prizes, namely the Guggenheim International Painting Prize (1956) and the Prémio Internacional de Pintura at the 1957 Sao Paulo Biennale. In 1969, the Tate Gallery in London held a second major retrospective. Nicholson continued working and exhibiting unto the end of his life.
Exhibitions
Abstrakte Kunst Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), The Netherlands 01-01-1938 ~ 31-12-1938
Ben Nicholson (London) Lafevre Gallery, United Kingdom 01-01-1939 ~ 31-12-1939
Documenta British Council (Kassel), Germany 01-01-1955 ~ 31-12-1955
Contemporary Art British Council (Copenhagen), Denmark 01-01-1956 ~ 30-12-1956
Bienal de São Paulo Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil 01-09-1957 ~ 30-11-1957
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999 Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 27-01-2000 ~ 27-08-2000
Collection Berardo, Oeuvres Choisies du 20e Siècle Musée des Beaux Arts de Lyon, France 05-10-2001 ~ 14-01-2002
Ben Nicholson (Valencia) IVAM Centre Julio González, Spain 25-04-2002 ~ 07-07-2002
Territórios Singulares na Colecção Berardo Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 22-10-2002 ~ 28-02-2003
Ben Nicholson (Hayama) The Museum of Modern Art (Hayama), Japan 07-02-2004 ~ 28-03-2004
Ben Nicholson (Nagoya) Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art (Nagoya), Japan 09-04-2004 ~ 23-05-2004
Ben Nicholson (Tokyo) Tokyo Station Gallery, Japan 29-05-2004 ~ 25-07-2004
De Miró à Warhol. La Collection Berardo à Paris Musée du Luxembourg, France 16-10-2008 ~ 22-02-2009
Sous la Dictée de L’image Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 01-03-2010 ~ 26-05-2010
Bibliography
Ben Nicholson, 2004 Published by The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama
Ben Nicholson, 2002 Published by IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez
Ben Nicholson, 1993 Published by Norbert Lynton
Ben Nicholson: Paintings, Reliefs and Drawings, vol I, 1948
British Art: A selection from Waddington Galleries Published by Waddington Galleries
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999, 2000 Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém ISBN 972817652X
Collection Berardo, Oeuvres Choisies du 20e Siècle, 2001 Published by Musée des Beaux Arts de Lyon ISBN 2711843319
Contemporary Art, 1956 Published by British Council, Oslo & Copenhagen
Documenta, 1955, 1955 Published by British Council
Fourth International Biennial Exhibition, 1957 Published by Museum of Modern Art, New York; Mansfield Fine Arts Guild; San Francisco State College; Los Angeles Valley College; Museum of Fine Art, Van Nuys; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; State University College, Oswego
Territórios Singulares na Colecção Berardo, 2002 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 972974288X
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