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During the early 1920s Nicholson spent a considerable time abroad, becoming acquainted with modern French painting – with Cézanne, Picasso and Braque in particular – and with work of the Italian Renaissance artists Giotto, Uccello, and Piero della Francesca. All of these were to have an influence on his ideas about art. Particularly as expressed in the still-lifes he painted during this period. This painting comes from this experimental stage in Nicholson's career, and illustrates his developing concern with the way simple, trivial objects are formalised into expressions of durability, stillness and permanence. Nicholson never merely describes an object: he suggests it through outline and a sense of the relationships it forms with the elements that surround it.
Title
1926 (still life with fruit – version 2)
Date
1926
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 55.2 x W 61 cm
Accession number
P2
Acquisition method
purchased from Redfern Gallery, 1946
Work type
Painting