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Sir William Nicholson (1872-1948)

The Alice, 1906
oil on canvas-board
11 by 13 inches (28 by 33 cm)
signed and dated 'W. NICHOLSON 1906' (lower right)
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Provenance

Messers P. & D. Colnaghi, London, circa 1922
T.W. Spurr, Bradford, where acquired by Wyndham T. Vint, May 1938, and by family descent to the previous owner
There sale, Christie’s London, 27 June 2017, lot 203, where acquired by the present owner

Exhibitions

London, W.B. Paterson, An Exhibition of Pictures by William Nicholson, November - December 1906, no. 21
International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, Contemporary British Landscape, June - July 1912, no. 14
Toronto, Canadian National Exhibition Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture by British, Spanish and Canadian Artists and International Graphic Art, August - September 1922, no.  66
Matthews & Brook, Spring 1927
Hull, 1932, no. 14, as 'The S/S Alice'
Manchester, City Art Gallery, Platt Hall, Works by William Nicholson, June - July 1933, no. 23
Scarborough, Public Library, Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by William Nicholson, August - September 1933, no. 79
Folkestone, Public Art Gallery, Exhibition of Paintings and Lithographs by William Nicholson, October - November 1933, no. 49
Belfast, Ulster Museum, William Nicholson: exhibition of paintings and prints, February 1934, no. 29
Lincoln, Usher Art Gallery, Exhibition of paintings and lithographs by William Nicholson, July - August 1934, no. 51
Newark, Municipal Museum, Exhibition of Paintings by William Nicholson, September - October 1934, no. 54
Wales, British Institute of Adult Education, 1940
London, British Institute of Adult Education, 1941

Literature

Lillian Browse, William Nicholson, London, 1956, p. 129, no. 637
Patricia Reed, William Nicholson: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, London, 2011, p. 112, no. 87, illustrated

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