Winifred NICHOLSON (1893-1981)
Duddon Valley, 1974
Oil on canvas
19 ½ x 19 ½ inches / 49.5 x 49.5cm
Provenance:
Crane Kalman Gallery, London
Private Collection, UK purchased from the above
Crane Kalman Gallery, London
Private Collection, purchased from the above in 2009
Exhibited:
Crane Kalman Gallery, London 1974
You can have as much Yellow as you want in a picture – the more the better, as Bonnard tells. You can have as much Blue as you wish, as Van Gogh told Gauguin – in fact, you can only have a true telling sky blue if you have a great deal of Blue, as Gauguin told Van Gogh in his letter reply.
Winifred Nicholson, ‘When I Shut My Eyes,’ Winifred Nicholson, Crane Kalman Gallery, February 1972