Ben Nicholson
Ben Nicholson was born in Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom on April 10th, 1894 and is the Painter. At the age of 87, Ben Nicholson biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Benjamin Lauder Nicholson, OM (10 April 1894 – 6 February 1982) was an English painter of abstract compositions (occasionally in poor relief), landscape, and still life.
Life and works
Nicholson's first notable work was created after a visit to J. M. Barrie, a playwright, on holiday in Rustington, Sussex, in 1904. Barrie used a drawing by Nicholson as the basis for a poster for the play Peter Pan; his father William designed some of the scenes and costumes;
Nicholson was refused admission to World War I military service due to asthma. He went to New York in 1917 for an operation on his tonsils, followed by other American cities, returning to Britain in 1918. Nicholson's mother died in July of influenza, and his brother Anthony Nicholson was killed in action before he returned.
He was married to Winifred Nicholson and lived in London from 1920 to 1933. Nicholson's first exhibition of figurative works in London in 1922, his work was heavily influenced by Synthetic Cubism and then Rousseau's primitive style. He became the president of the Seven and Five Society in 1926.
In London, Nicholson met Barbara Hepworth (to whom he was married from 1938 to 1951) and Henry Moore. On his trips to Paris, he met Mondrian, whose contribution in the neoplastic style was supposed to influence him in a new abstract direction, and Picasso, whose cubism would also find its way into his art. His gift, on the other hand, was his ability to incorporate these European trends into a new style that was more recognizable as his own. He first visited St Ives, Cornwall, with fellow painter Christopher Wood, where he first met the fisherman and painter Alfred Wallis. He made his first wood relief, White Relief, in Paris in 1933, which was limited to only right angles and circles. He was one of the editors of Circle, an influential monograph on constructivism, who died in 1937. He believed that abstract art should be enjoyed by the general public, as shown by Nicholson Wall, a mural he created for the garden of Sutton Place in Guildford, Surrey. In 1939, Nicholson was sent to St Ives, where he spent 19 years at Trezion, Salubrious Place. He joined the St Ives Society of Artists in 1943. He and Barbara Hepworth divorced in 1951.
In 1952, he received the prestigious Carnegie Prize, and in 1955, a retrospective exhibition of his work was on view at the Tate Gallery in London. He won the first Guggenheim International painting competition in 1956 and was awarded the international prize for painting at the Sao Paulo Art Biennial in 1957.
In 1957, Nicholson married photographer Felicitas Vogler and moved to Castagnola, Switzerland. He received the British Order of Merit (OM) in 1968. In 1971, he separated from Vogler and moved to Cambridge. They divorced in 1977.
In Pilgrim's Lane, Hampstead, Nicholson's last home was located. He died on February 6, 1982, and was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium on February 12th.
The Tate Gallery, Tate St Ives, Kettle's Yard Art Gallery in Cambridge, The Hepworth Wakefield Gallery in Chichester, and the Pier Arts Centre in Stromness, Orkney, all Nicholson's works can be seen at the Tate Gallery, Tate St Ives, Kettle's Yard Art Gallery in Kettle, Kettle's Yard Art Gallery in Kettle. On November 1, 2011, an auction record for this artist of $1,650,000.500 was set at Christie's, New York, for September 53 (Balearic), an oil and pencil on canvas. On masonite, his painting Fiddle and Spanish Guitar was sold for €3,313,000 by Christie's in Paris on September 27.
