1914 (the striped jug)

© Angela Verren Taunt. All rights reserved, DACS 2024. Image credit: The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds

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The fastidious and spare still lifes that Nicholson preferred in the early years of his career owed a debt to his father. In the 1920s, Nicholson began to explore the innovations in still life made by Cubism, arranging its elements, such as a jug and glass, as flat shapes on the picture plane. In the 1930s, he visited Paris frequently and met – among other abstractionists - Arp, Brancusi and Mondrian. These encounters must have been among the principal influences that prompted his series of white reliefs, which contained only the circle and the right angle. This uncompromising abstraction placed him in the forefront of British modernism and in 1937, his role as one of the editors of the 'constructivist’ manifesto – Circle – identified him with an international group of artists and architects who believed that art should have the precision of mathematics, and ornament should give way to clean lines.

The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds

Leeds

Title

1914 (the striped jug)

Date

1914

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 85.1 x W 66 cm

Accession number

LEEUA1923.10

Acquisition method

donated by Sir Michael Ernest Sadler, 1923

Work type

Painting

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