AUGUST 1964 (RACCIANO)

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AUGUST 1964 (RACCIANO) 1964

Ben Nicholson (1894 – 1982)

Details

Dimension
137.8 X 79.4 CM
Media
OIL ON CARVED BOARD
Accession number
P821

Summary

Many of Nicholson’s late reliefs have place names in their titles. In some the reference between relief and place name is clear, in others the allusion is less obvious. The artist added the titles only after completing the works and the connexion between the two was always highly personal, and even at times frivolous. This work is not a representation of the landscape, but rather an evocation of an experience or awareness of it described in colour, form and texture.

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