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9. Sir William Nicholson, 1872-1949
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9. Sir William Nicholson, 1872-1949

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Description

Rottingdean, Winter

Oil on canvas board

13 x 16 inches

Provenance: Sir Ralph Richardson,

with the Chenil Gallery, London

Private Collection, USA

 

Additional Description
Exhibited: Chenil Gallery, William Nicholson, 1910, no. 9; Brighton Art Gallery and Museum, The Painter's Brighton, July 1962

Literature: Andrew Nicholson (ed.), William Nicholson: Painter, Giles de la Mare, London, 1996, p. 100, illustrated in colour

Nicholson painted this picture in 1908, the year before he moved into the Old Vicarage in the village of Rottingdean in Sussex amongst the South Downs. Here he discovered landscape painting, even calling himself ‘The Painter of the Downs.’ Simplifying the dominant shapes in the landscapes and minimising human elements lent his landscapes a surreal quality. Ignoring this, his son Ben once remarked that the key to his father was that ‘he merely wanted to paint,’ and whilst this remark may seem oddly dismissive, it may also be rather acute: there is sensual enjoyment in the rich green of the rain soaked grass, the drizzle in the air above, and the slick ribbon of the path that unrolls over the undulating Downs.

 
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