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Ben Nicholson

October 2023

  • Henry Moore, photographed in 1978, received a still-life painting from Ben Nicholson in return.

    Henry Moore’s ‘missing’ sculpture Head on sale to the public for the first time

    Not seen in public since 1952, the unique alabaster carving is expected to fetch up to £3m at auction

April 2020

  • Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson with the triplets.

    Letters reveal postnatal crisis of Barbara Hepworth

    Previously unpublished correspondence sheds new light on artist’s struggle to pursue career while caring for triplets alone

October 2018

  • The judge’s annotated paperback copy from the Lady Chatterley’s Lover obscenity trial.

    Marilyn Monroe's basket, Picasso's box and a Fabergé pot in Sotheby's sale

    Eccentric auction items come from the North Yorkshire home of avid collectors Christopher Cone and Stanley J Seeger

September 2014

  • Alan Reynolds's painting 'Ascending 1972'

    Alan Reynolds obituary

    Artist who abandoned figuration and popularity in favour of a more austere abstract vision

December 2013

  • The Slade 1953

    Slade art school puts old class pictures online to find past pupils

    Renowned London art school places annual photos on the internet in project to track down lesser known alumni

February 2012

  • Art Weekly newsletter
    Mondrian triumphs and Simone Martini enlightens – the week in art

    Mondrian is in a class of his own at the Courtauld and Simone Martini's eyes have it at Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham

  • picasso the source

    Picasso and Modern British Art – review

    The story of Picasso's influence on British artists serves only to diminish those who tried to emulate him, writes Laura Cumming
  • Mondrian composition from 1935

    Mondrian exhibition showcases the London years

    Courtauld show traces relationship with artist Ben Nicholson who invited Dutch modernist fleeing German invasion threat

November 2011

  • Mondrian's Composition C with Red Yellow and Blue

    Mondrian's little known London period highlighted by exhibition of rare works

  • dartington-hall-art-sale

    Row as Dartington Hall auctions off its treasures

September 2011

  • Ben Nicholson Birch Craig (Summer)

    The Northerner
    Ben Nicholson's northern period serves up a Middlesbrough treat

    The Northerner's art supremo, Alan Sykes, inspects mima's latest exhibition with a learned Cumbrian eye

February 2009

  • Ben Nicholson

    Exhibitionist
    Exhibitionist: The best art shows to see this week

    A wake for the Wallis Gallery, Melanie Manchot's exhibition-in-progress and a homecoming for Ben Nicholson in St Ives

January 2009

  • Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth

    Ben Nicholson's paintings return to St Ives for the first time

    A new exhibition at Tate St Ives collects together a broad range of the artist's work for the first time in the town that provided him with so much inspiration

September 2008

  • Ben Nicholson

  • Detail from Ben Nicholson's 1922 (Cold Fell) © Angela Verren Taunt 2008

    Ben Nicholson

August 2008

  • The biscuit-tin modernist

    Art: A beautiful show reveals the abstract trailblazer as a dear old English Romantic

July 2008

  • Another look at Ben Nicholson

    A Ben Nicholson exhibition in Cumbria aims to highlight neglected figurative aspects of the great abstract painter's work

February 2003

  • Arthur Jackson Hepworth

    Artist and architect, he studied with Ben Nicholson and Leslie Martin and always stayed true to his modernist roots.

June 2000

  • What goes round...

    Ben Nicholson revolutionised British art. Sarah Jane Checkland squares the circle of the rise and fall of a great English painter

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