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* Ben Nicholson [1894-1982] Cion De Arquitectos-Barcelona: inscribed on the reverse in ink biro 'This drawing is to be left mounted on the blue board which has become a part of its colour scheme, B.N.' further inscribed Ben Nicholson May 60 for Michael Snow pencil and watercolour drawing (shaped) 30 x 14cm minimum, 19cm maximum. *Provenance. Gifted to Michael Snow by the artist, thence by family descent * Biography. Ben Nicholson (1894-1982) was born in Denham, Buckinghamshire. His father was the painter Sir William Nicholson. He attended the Slade School of Art in 1910-11. In 1922 he had his first solo exhibition at the Adelphi Gallery, London and soon after painted abstract paintings influenced by Cubism and by 1927, inspired by Rousseau and early Folk Art, he had evolved a primitive style. He met Mondrian and Picasso who both had influences on his work. In 1939 Nicholson moved to St Ives with his wife Barbara Hepworth, the sculptor. They initially stayed with Adrian Stokes in Carbis Bay. Nicholson entered a period of painting landscapes and coloured abstract reliefs, and then linear abstract painting. He joined the St Ives Society in 1943 and in 1949 was a founder member of The Penwith Society. In 1951 Nicholson and Hepworth divorced and he left Cornwall in 1957.