Ending 23rd Apr, 2025 12:00
Affordable Art - Timed
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Bob Nicholson (20th/21st Century)
Twelve paintings
variously signed and dated (to reverse)
mainly oil on canvas
largest 124 x 106cm (12).
Childhood in London during the Blitz saw the young Bob Nicolson drawing escapist fantasies, of pirates and soldiers, and illustrations for his first published book at the age of 17, ‘The Battle of the Goldfish Pond’ (publ. by Bruno Cassirer 1947). He went on to study art at Newcastle On Tyne where his professors singled him out as the most promising artist of his year. His long career as a painter started with works exhibited at the Piccadilly Galleries in London, the Burlington, and in a group show ‘Watercolourists of Great Britain’ at the Marlborough Galleries. But he has always resisted trends and fashions, preferring to work and sell privately, exhibiting only under pressure, in later years at the Light Gallery, London (2005) and the Northwall Gallery, Oxford (2008).
His work draws heavily on memory and personal experience, each with a fantastical or mystical narrative. While many of his canvasses are large, the surfaces are crafted with almost microscopic detail, giving them a tactile quality that is impossible to capture in photographs.
Sold for £160
Estimated at £150 - £250
Bob Nicholson (20th/21st Century)
Twelve paintings
variously signed and dated (to reverse)
mainly oil on canvas
largest 124 x 106cm (12).
Childhood in London during the Blitz saw the young Bob Nicolson drawing escapist fantasies, of pirates and soldiers, and illustrations for his first published book at the age of 17, ‘The Battle of the Goldfish Pond’ (publ. by Bruno Cassirer 1947). He went on to study art at Newcastle On Tyne where his professors singled him out as the most promising artist of his year. His long career as a painter started with works exhibited at the Piccadilly Galleries in London, the Burlington, and in a group show ‘Watercolourists of Great Britain’ at the Marlborough Galleries. But he has always resisted trends and fashions, preferring to work and sell privately, exhibiting only under pressure, in later years at the Light Gallery, London (2005) and the Northwall Gallery, Oxford (2008).
His work draws heavily on memory and personal experience, each with a fantastical or mystical narrative. While many of his canvasses are large, the surfaces are crafted with almost microscopic detail, giving them a tactile quality that is impossible to capture in photographs.
Auction: Affordable Art - Timed, ending 23rd Apr, 2025
