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Ben Nicholson

August 1956 (Val d'Orcia), 1956,

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About the artwork

Nicholson returned to painting still lifes throughout his career. In particular, he was fascinated by table top scenes – a legacy of his interest in cubism, whose followers often used still life compositions to suggest distinctive, three dimensional form. Here, Nicholson uses warm landscape colours and a smooth fresco-like surface to evoke the Val d’Orcia, a place not far from Siena, Italy.

Abstract Art

Artist Ben Nicholson
Artwork August 1956 (Val d'Orcia), 1956
Credit Original: Oil, gesso and graphite on board 122 x 213.5 cm © Angela Verren Taunt 2015. All rights reserved, DACS

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Ben Nicholson (1894–1982) was a pioneer of abstract art and a key figure of the St Ives School. Born in Denham, Buckinghamshire, he married Winifred Nicholson in 1920 and travelled widely throughout Europe. His work was influenced by pivotal movements in European art such as post-impressionism, cubism and constructivism, though he forged his own distinctly personal response to these genres. By the 1930s his work was almost entirely abstract, and in 1933 he created his first abstract reliefs – three dimensional painted compositions, possibly influenced by his second marriage to the sculptor Barbara Hepworth.

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