Ben Nicholson
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Chapel in Greece, 1967
Ben Nicholson (1894–1982) was a pivotal figure in British modernism whose work spanned still life, landscape, and abstract reliefs. Influenced by Cubism, Mondrian, and international Constructivism, Nicholson played a central role in introducing modernist aesthetics to Britain. His white reliefs of the 1930s, with their precise geometric forms, epitomise his commitment to clarity, proportion, and purity of form.
Nicholson exhibited widely across Europe and was closely associated with St Ives through his partnership with Barbara Hepworth. His later landscapes and still lifes, often rooted in the Mediterranean or Cornwall, merge abstraction with lyrical observation. Represented in Tate, MoMA, the Guggenheim, and major global institutions, Nicholson remains a touchstone for modernist abstraction in Britain.
Nicholson exhibited widely across Europe and was closely associated with St Ives through his partnership with Barbara Hepworth. His later landscapes and still lifes, often rooted in the Mediterranean or Cornwall, merge abstraction with lyrical observation. Represented in Tate, MoMA, the Guggenheim, and major global institutions, Nicholson remains a touchstone for modernist abstraction in Britain.