Ben Nicholson
August 1964 (Racciano), 1964
Oil on carved board
137.8 x 79.4 cm
54 1/4 x 31 1/4 in
On Loan from the British Council Collection
54 1/4 x 31 1/4 in
On Loan from the British Council Collection
Provenance
With Marlborough Fine Art, LondonBritish Council Collection, 1965
Exhibitions
1965, New York, André Emmerich Gallery and Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Ben Nicholson 1955-1965, April 1965, cat. no. 831969, London, Tate Gallery, Ben Nicholson, 18 June - 27 July 1969, cat. no. 115
1970, Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, British Painting and Sculpture 1960-1970, 12 Nov. 1970 - 3 Jan. 1971, cat. no. 2
1972, Trondheim, Kunstforenig; Oslo, Kunstnerforbundet; Bergen, Kunstforeningen; Warsaw, Museum Narodwe Warszawie; Krakow, Museum Narodwe; and Poznan, Museum Narodwe, British Paintings 1945-1970, 29 Jan. - 16 Feb.; 4 - 23 Feb.; 25 Feb. - 12 March; 1 - 30 June; 12 - 31 July; and 1 - 31 Aug. 1972
1977, London, Royal Academy of Arts, British Painting 1952-1977, 24 Sept. - 20 Nov. 1977, cat. no. 279
1978, Buffalo, Albright Knox Art Gallery; Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; and Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, Ben Nicholson: Fifty Years of His Art, 21 Oct. - 26 Nov. 1978; 21 Dec. 1978 - 18 Feb. 1979; and 17 March - 13 May 1979, cat. no. 74
1987, Madrid, Fundacion Juan March, and Lisbon, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Ben Nicholson, 6 Feb. - 29 March and 1 - 30 April 1988, cat. no. 55
1993, London, Tate Gallery, and St-Etienne, Musée d'Art Moderne, Ben Nicholson, 13 Oct. 1993 - 9 Jan. 1994 and 10 Feb. - 25 April 1994, cat. no. 119
2002, Cambridge, Kettle's Yard; Manchester, Manchester City Art Gallery; and Southampton, Southampton City Art Gallery, Ben Nicholson: 'chasing out something alive': drawings and painted reliefs 1950-1975, 27 July - 22 Sept. 2002; 3 Oct. - 15 Dec. 2002; and 9 Jan. - 16 March 2003, cat. no. 29
2004, Hayama, Museum of Modern Art; Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art; and Tokyo, Tokyo Station Gallery, Ben Nicholson 1894-1982, 7 Feb. - 28 March; 9 April - 23 May; and 29 May - 25 July 2004, unnumbered
Literature
Ben Nicholson 1955-1965, exh. cat., André Emmerich Gallery and Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, 1965, cat. no. 83, n.p. (col. illus.)Charles Harrison, Ben Nicholson, exh. cat., Tate Gallery, 1969, cat. no. 115, p. 71
John Russell, Ben Nicholson: drawings, paintings and reliefs 1911-1968, Thames & Hudson, 1969, fig. 234 (col. illus.)
British painting and sculpture, exh. cat., British Council, 1970, cat. no. 2, p. 71 (illus.) (listed as 'August 64 (Racciano)')
British Painting 1952-1977, exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts, 1977, cat. no. 279, p. 98 (illus.) (listed as 'Aug. 64 Racciano')
Steven Nash, Ben Nicholson: Fifty Years of His Art, 1978, exh. cat., Albright-Knox Art Gallery, cat. no. 74, p. 119 (col. illus.)
Jeremy Lewison, Ben Nicholson, Tate Gallery, 1993, cat. no. 119, pp. 192 and 234 (col. illus.)
Norbert Lynton, Ben Nicholson, Phaidon, 1993, pp. 336, 338 and 339, pl. 326 (col. illus.)
Peter Khoroche, Ben Nicholson: 'chasing out something alive': drawings and painted reliefs 1950-1975, exh. cat., Kettle's Yard, 2002, cat. no. 29, p. 37 (col. illus.)
