Ben Nicholson

Studio International, 1969-12-31. hardcover. Good/Missing. 0x0x0. Studio International, 1969. Hardcover, 89 pp. First Edition. Good+/ NO dust jacket. Rust cloth covered boards with gold lettering on front and spine. Light bumping to edges and corners of covers and light overall scuffing and soiling with a bit of the color scuffed off along the corner tips. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-library. NO remainder marks. Color and black and white plates throughout. Ben Nicholson has widely been recognized as the foremost modernist painter of his generation in Britain. This retrospective has essays by Jean Helion, Geoffrey Grigson, Adrian Stokes, Naum Gabo, Felicitas Vogler & Leslie Martin. It also reprints Nicholson's statements and writings and has David Lewis's essay on 'Nicholson's reliefs' as well as de Sausmarez's essay on 'Nicholson's Drawings'. Detailed contents are as follows: Preface; Biographical Chronology; Reminiscences: Jean Helion, Geoffrey Grigson, Adrian Stokes, Naum Gabo talking to Maurice de Sausmarez, Felicitas Vogler, Henry Moore talking to Maurice de Sausmarez, Sir Leslie Martin; Ben Nicholson's Statements and Writings: The Aims of the Modern Artist; Statement in 'Unit One'; Quotations in 'Circle'; Notes on 'Abstract' Art; Alfred Wallis; Defending Modern Artists; Notes in a Tate Gallery Catalogue; Architecture and the Artist; Mr Ben Nicholson Answers Some Questions about his Work and Views; More or Less about Abstract Art; Artist's Statement; The Life and Opinions of an English 'Modern' Mondrian in London; William Nicholson; Tribute to Herbert Read; Published Statements, Writings and Interviews; Extracts from Letters; Nicholson's Reliefs by David Lewis; Nicholson's Drawings by Maurice de Sausmarez; Selected Bibliography