Ben Nicholson
Spanners Two, 1974
Oil wash and pencil on relief (created using a printing plate, impressed verso)
30.5 x 25.4 cm (12 x 10 in) (sheet)
54.6 x 47 cm (21.5 x 18.5 in) (framed)
Signed 'Nicholson', dated '74' and titled 'spanners two', verso
Provenance
The Artist
The Artist’s Estate
Waddington Galleries, London
Acquired by the present owner from the above, November 1986
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Waddington Galleries, Groups VI, London, 1983, no. 89, p. 45 (ill.)
P. Hamill, Tools as Art: The Hechinger Collection, New York, 1995, p. 141 (ill.)
Exhibited
London, The Tate Gallery, Ben Nicholson Drawings, November – December 1974, cat. no. 10
Zurich, Galerie Andre Emmerich, 1975
London, Waddington Galleries, Groups VI, February 2-26, 1983
Chicago, Illinois, Arts Club, Ben Nicholson, n.d.
Boston, Massachusetts, Thomas Segal Gallery, n.d.
Saint Louis, Missouri, City Museum (and elsewhere), Tools as Art: The Hechinger Collection, July 1, 2001-December 30, 2008