The Lustre Bowl

Details

SIR WILLIAM NICHOLSON (1872-1949)
The Lustre Bowl
signed and dated 'Nicholson. 1908' (lower right), signed with initials and inscribed 'Saturday/ My Dear W.H./ If you care for/ this bowl/ please keep it/ it's the best I can/ do. Apropos/ of nothing/ but my regard/ for you/ Ever/ W N' (on Savile Club headed paper attached to the reverse)
oil on canvas-board
10 7⁄8 x 13 in. (27.7 x 33 cm.)
Painted in 1908.

Provenance

A gift from the artist to William Heinemann in 1908.
A bequest from the above to his Executor, Sir George James Graham Lewis, and by descent to the present owner.

Literature

L. Browse, William Nicholson, London, 1956, p. 44, no. 55.
P. Reed, William Nicholson: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, London, 2011, p. 140, no. 135, illustrated.

Exhibited

London, Grafton Galleries, Chosen Pictures, April - May 1909, no. 74.
London, Leicester Galleries, Artists of Fame and Promise, July - August 1944, no. 67.
London, Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, William Nicholson: Landscapes and Still Lifes, October - November 2011, no catalogue.

Further Details

We are very grateful to Patricia Reed for her assistance in cataloguing this lot.