25th Sep, 2024 13:00
British & International Pictures
* SIR WILLIAM NICHOLSON (BRITISH 1872 - 1949)
THE DRUM MAJOR
lithograph on paper, titled and dated 1898 label verso
mounted, framed and under glass
image size 25cm x 23cm, overall size 47cm x 40cm
Label verso: Ewan Mundy Fine Art, London & Glasgow
Note: Born Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, 5 Feb. 1872; d Blewbury, Berkshire [now Oxfordshire], 16 May 1949). British painter, printmaker, and designer. He briefly attended Herkomer's school in Bushey, then studied at the Académie Julian, Paris. Early in his career he worked mainly as a printmaker and designer, notably on some brilliant poster designs in the 1890s, done in collaboration with his brother-in-law James Pryde under the name ‘J. & W. Beggarstaff’. Like Pryde, he had a great interest in the theatre, and he made designs for several plays, including the original production of Peter Pan in 1904. By this time, however, he was turning increasingly to painting. He was successful mainly as a portraitist (he had many celebrity sitters), but he is now particularly admired for his still lifes, typically small, unpretentious, and sensitively handled: his son Ben Nicholson praised their ‘poetic spirit’.
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