December 2 1951 (Burgundy)
Artist
Ben Nicholson
British, 1894 - 1982
Date1951
MediumOil on canvas, graphite
DimensionsStretcher: 10 × 14 in. (25.4 × 35.6 cm)
Frame Dimensions: 11 1/8 × 15 3/16 × 1 1/2 in. (28.3 × 38.6 × 3.8 cm)
Frame Dimensions: 11 1/8 × 15 3/16 × 1 1/2 in. (28.3 × 38.6 × 3.8 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift to The Murray Collection in memory of Terry A. Murray
Object number1995.7.2
On View
Not on viewCollections
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- European Paintings & Sculpture
SignedSigned and inscribed on reverse: "Ben Nicholson Dec 2-51 (Burgundy)."
InscribedInscribed on reverse "Buff, Blue, Violet."
MarkingsStamped on verso
DescriptionPainted with many rubbed and scraped layers and with overlapping images that create the illusion of a Cubist collage. Primarily yellow and buff on a ground of two shades of brown with accents in a brick red (once perhaps closer to burgundy?), sky blue, blue-green, olive drab and black. On top of the final paint layer there are very fine graphite lines, some creating the outlines of elements of wine glasses and a mug with large handleFramed and glazed. A flat, box-like natural mahogany frame possibly original to the work.Exhibition History"Visionaries of Contemporary British Painting," Bernard Jacobson Gallery, New York, May 3- June 11, 1988.
"Director's Choice: Focus on Modernism." Hoopes Gallery. April 5- September 14, 2008.
"50 at 50: Five Decades of Collecting at the Hyde". Wood Gallery, Education Wing, Hyde House, The Hyde Collection. Glens Falls, January 16, 2013 -April 14, 2013ProvenanceNew York, NY, Jane S. Murray,
1995, Glens Falls, NY, The Hyde Collection Trust
