Winifred NICHOLSON (1893 – 1981)
Flower Table; Pots, c.1927
Oil on canvas
25 5/8 x 33 ½ inches / 65 x 85.1 cm
Provenance:
Private Collection, Cumbria
Exhibited:
Beaux Art Gallery, 1927, no. 42 or 43
Leicester Galleries, 1930, no. 5
Winifred Nicholson, Arts Council of Great Britain, Hayward Gallery, London, travelled to The Tate Gallery, 3 June - 2 Aug. 1987, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle 15th August – 20th September 1987, Bristol City Art Gallery, Bristol, 26th September – 1st November 1987, Stoke City Art Gallery, Stoke, 7th November – 13th December 1987, Aberdeen City Art Gallery, Aberdeen, 9th January – 31st January 1988, Kettles Yard, Cambridge 13th February – 20th March 1988, cat. No. 12, ill.
Art and Life 1920 – 1931, Leeds Museums and Galleries, 18th October 2013 – 12th January 2014, travelled to Kettles Yard, Cambridge, 15th February – 11th May 2014, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, 4th June – 21st September 2014, ill. in book, p.83
Literature:
Unknown Colour, compiled Andrew Nicholson, published by Faber & Faber, 1987, ill. in col. p.134
Winifred Nicholson, Christopher Andreae, Lund Humphries, 2009, p.95, ill in colour
To us to say that a thing was Modern was to say that it was ‘good’, sweeping away Victorian, Edwardian, Old Theology, Oil Tory views. In the new world there would be no slums, no unnecessary palm trees, no false ornament – but clarity, white walls, simplicity – complete and satisfying.’
Winifred Nicholson, Moments of Light, Unknown Colour, p41