Ben Nicholson OM 1894-1982

Nicholson wanted to make abstract art accessible. In 1941, he wrote that looking at

abstract paintings  should be easy: "There is no need to concentrate; it becomes a

part of living. I think that so far from being a limited ｅxpression, understood by a few,

abstract art is a powerful, unlimited and universal language."

 

 

 

1921 - circa 1923 (Cortivallo, Lugano Switzerland)  1921-circa 1923
Oil and pencil on canvas

 

 

 

                                                      1922 (bread)  1922, Oil on canvas

 

 

 

1928 (foothills, Cumberland)  1928, Oil on canvas

 

 

 

                                                      1932 (Le Quotidien)  1932

 

 

 

1934-6 (painting - still life)  1934-6

 

 

 

                                                      1943-45 (St Ives, Cornwall)  1943-5, Oil and pencil on canvasboard

 

 

 

1945 (still life)  1945

 

 

 

                 Festival of Britain Mural  1951, Oil on board

 

 

 

Feb 2-54 1954, Oil and pencil on canvas

 

 

 

                                                                       June 1961 (Green Goblet and Blue Square) 1961

 

 

 

1962 (Blue Paros) 1962