Ben Nicholson (b1894-1982) Nicholson’s Life & Work In St Ives, Hardback, Virginia Button 2021

Ben Nicholson (b1894-1982) Examination of Nicholson’s life and work in St Ives, Virginia Button 2021

Description – Fantastic images, A table top book to start conversation, foremostly a delightful read and reference book. With 112 pages with 60 colour illustrations Virginia Button’s engaging, fully-illustrated story provides a detailed examination of Nicholson’s life and work in St Ives, giving a thorough introduction as well as new insights into the evolving practice of this major artist over a period of six decades.

Ben Nicholson (1894-1982) was one of the greatest British artists of the twentieth century, first coming to international prominence with his famous ‘white reliefs’ of the 1930s. A pioneer of abstract art in Britain, he played a significant role in the European avant-garde, forming close links with Picasso, Braque, Arp, Mondrian and others. At the same time he had a strong sense of tradition, maintaining a life- long attachment to landscape and still-life forms. Central to the establishment of a modernist art community in St Ives, Nicholson’s importance as a disseminator of international avant-garde ideas in Britain cannot be overstated. His career spanned more than 60 years and embraced carved reliefs, paintings, drawings and prints.

Virginia Button is an art critic and former Turner Prize curator.

Artist: Ben Nicholson

Dimensions: 24.6 x 18.9 cm

Author: Virginia Button

Hardback: Yes

Number of illustrations: 60 colour

Publisher: Tate 

No of pages: 112 

Condition:  Excellent and in pristine used condition. The piece has stored flat and from sunlight since 2021

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