biography
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| lived:
| (1894–1982)
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| biography:
| Artist, born in Denham, Buckinghamshire, SC England, UK, the son of Sir William Nicholson. He exhibited with the Paris Abstraction-Création group (1933–4) and at the Venice Biennale (1954). He designed a mural panel for the Festival of Britain (1951), and executed another for the Time Life building in London (1952). As one of the leading abstract artists, he gained an international reputation, and won the first Guggenheim Award in 1957. Although he produced a number of purely geometrical paintings and reliefs, in general he used conventional still-life objects as a starting point for his finely drawn and subtly balanced and coloured variations. Three times married, his second wife was Barbara Hepworth. |
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