Two Points Atlantic - St Ives and Provincetown

Two Points Atlantic – St Ives and Provincetown

2nd November – 16th December 2017

CRANE KALMAN GALLERY LTD 178 Brompton Road, London SW3 1HQ Tel: +44 (0)20 7584 7566 Fax: +44 (0)20 7584 3843 www.cranekalman.com / info@cranekalman.com

Wilhelmina BARNS-GRAHAM

Milton AVERY

Barbara HEPWORTH

Robert DE NIRO Sr.

Patrick HERON

Helen FRANKENTHALER

Roger HILTON

Adolph GOTTLIEB

Peter LANYON

Hans HOFMANN

Ben NICHOLSON

Lee KRASNER

Winifred NICHOLSON

Roberto MATTA

Alfred WALLIS

Robert MOTHERWELL

John WELLS

Paul RESIKA

Bryan WYNTER

Mark ROTHKO

Christopher WOOD

Theodoros STAMOS

Wilhelmina BARNES GRAHAM (1912 – 2004) To the Lighthouse, 2, 1972-8 Pencil with Yellow Highlighting on paper 18 ¼ x 23 ¾ inches / 46.5 x 60 cm Signed and dated 1972-8 with inscription on a gallery label verso Provenance: Michael Parkin Gallery, London Private Collection, purchased from the above in Oct 1988 and by descent

Wilhelmina BARNS - GRAHAM (1912 – 2004) View of St Ives, 1940 Oil on canvas 25 x 30 Ÿ inches / 63.5 x 76.5 cm Provenance: The Barns Graham Trust Recently rediscovered and restored, this painting of rooftops in St Ives, with the harbour and the island beyond is a wonderful, early evocation of the central feature of her new home. She would again and again draw and paint the harbour and its environs. Contemporary photographs record her working at her easel in the streets of St Ives.

Here, her vantage point was Tregenna Terrace, high above the town. The simplification of forms and textural approach to mark making, together with the paleness of palette in the foreground, darkening in the island and the sea, suggest the sharp penetrating lights of Cornwall, so reminiscent of that of her native St Andrews.

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Terry FROST (1915 – 2003) Three Chevrons, 1961 Watercolour on paper 13 7/8 x 30 7/8 inches / 35 x 78 cm Signed Provenance: Private Collection, UK Literature: Terry Frost: Act & Image - Works on Paper Through Six Decades, Mel Gooding Published by Belgrave Gallery, London (2000), illustrated front cover

Roger HILTON (1911 – 1975) June 1958 – Green, 1958 oil on canvas signed, dated & inscribed verso 30 × 40 inches / 76.2 × 101.6 cm Provenance: The Estate of the Artist

Roger HILTON (1911-1975) September, 1953 Oil on canvas 30 x 15 inches / 76 x 38 cm Signed and dated verso Provenance Waddington Gallery, London Andrew Colls Esq, London Private Collection, UK Exhibitions The Scottish Arts Council Gallery, Edinburgh, Roger Hilton drawings and paintings, 15th June- 15th July 1974, A Scottish Art Council Exhibition Hayward Gallery, London, Roger Hilton, 4th November- 6th February 1994 Literature The Scottish Arts Council Gallery, Roger Hilton drawings and paintings, 15th June- 15th July 1974, A Scottish Art Council Exhibition, cat no.10 (Waddington Galleries, London) Hayward Gallery, London, Roger Hilton, 4th November- 6th February 1994, cat no.13, illus colour

Roger HILTON (1911-1975) Untitled, 1962 Oil on canvas 44 x 50 inches / 111.8 x 127 cm Signed 'Hilton' and dated 'Oct, 62' verso Provenance The Artist Private collection, Spain (purchased from the above) Thence by descent Roger Hilton spent his formative years during the late 1930s in Paris, where he was surrounded by the inspiration of Wassily Kandinsky’s expressive colour compositions and the lessons of Tachiste painter Roger Bissière at the Académie Ranson. Following the Second World War, Hilton continued to be acutely aware of developments in European modern art as he maintained close friendships with artists such as the Dutch painter Constant Nieuwenhuys. In 1953, the pair travelled together to Paris and Amsterdam, where Hilton experienced Piet Mondrian’s pure, geometric abstraction first hand at the Stedelijk and Gemeentemuseum. 'Untitled', 1962 is characteristic of the sensual, improvisatory style of organic abstraction that Hilton developed throughout the 1950s and 60s as a pivotal member of the St Ives School. During this period Hilton used his numerous sketches of the female figure as inspiration for a new aesthetic of curvaceous line and natural form that evoked fragments of the human body. The integration of organic corporeal shapes into Hilton’s compositions was also accompanied by a change in technique, which embraced a range of gestural marks and motifs made with a more fluid, tactile application of paint.

Dame Barbara HEPWORTH (1903 – 1975) Stringed Figure (Curlew) Version I, 1956 Brass and cotton string on a wooden base 16 ½ x 19 ¼ x 11 3/8 inches / 42 x 49 x 29 cm Cast in an edition of 9, BH 225A Provenance Private Collection, UK Exhibited: Valencia, IVAM (Institut Valencià d'Art Modern), Barbara Hepworth, September-November 2004, ill. in col Women and Art, Crane Kalman Gallery, London, December 2012 – January 2013

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Peter LANYON (1918 – 1964) Albano, 1958 Oil on board 43 x 11½ inches / 109 x 29 cm backboard 48½ x 15 inches / 123 x 38 cm Inscribed, signed and dated, back: ALBANO [circled] / Peter Lanyon / 58 Provenance: W. E. Tucker, 1958 Private Collection, 2008 Exhibited: Peter Lanyon, Gimpel Fils, 1958, no. 10, dimensions as 33 x 11 inches Porthmeor: A Peter Lanyon Mural Rediscovered, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, 2008–09, no number, reproduced in colour Literature: Andrew Causey, Peter Lanyon: His Paintings, 1971, p. 55, no. 96

Ben NICHOLSON (1894 – 1982) 1941 (Painted Relief - Version I), 1941 Oil on carved Board Relief Element - 18 ¼ x 42 ¼ inches / 46.5 x 107 cm, in total 28 x 55 ½ inches / 72.5 x 141 cm Signed and dated verso Inscribed verso with framing instructions and colour notes, probably by the artist Inscribed verso Nicholson/Dunlace/Trelyon/St. Ives and dispatch by passenger train/To /J.L. Martin/Box Lane House/Herts Provenance: Collection of S & J.L. Martin (purchased or gifted from the artist, by 1948) Waddington Gallery, London Private Collection, London (purchased from the above in 2003) Exhibited: The British Pavilion - Ben Nicholson, Francis Bacon and Lucien Freud, Venice Biennale, June – August 1954, works by Ben Nicholson then travelled to the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1954/55, the Musee National D’art Moderne Paris, 21st January 1955 – 20th February 1955, the Palais Des Beaux-Arts De Bruxelles Brussels, 5th March 1955 – 27th March 1955 and the Kunsthaus Zurich, 9th April 1955 – 21th May 1955 Ben Nicholson Retrospective, Tate Gallery, 16 June – 2 August 1955 Ben Nicholson, Tate Gallery, 19 June - 27 July 1969, Cat. no. 69, (not illustrated) Ben Nicholson, Tate Gallery, 13th February – 14th April 1985, cat. no. 64 Ben Nicholson, Tate Gallery, 13 October 1993 - 9 January 1994, Cat. no. 75, ill. in cat. no.

75, p.158, travelled to the Musee D'art Moderne, St Etienne, France.

Literature: Ben Nicholson Paintings, Reliefs and Drawings, Vol. 1, Introduction by Herbert Read, Lund Humphries, London, 1948, ill. no. 129 Ben Nicholson, Exhibition Catalogue, Tate Gallery, London, 1955, Cat. no. 30 Ben Nicholson, Jeremy Lewison, Phaidon, London, 1991, no. 97, Ill. in colour Ben Nicholson, Norbet Lynton, Phaidon, 1993, ill. no. 355, p.368 Ben Nicholson in England,Ed. Chris Stephens, Tate publishing, 2008, ill. in colour, no. 40, p.70 Note – other versions of the work were owned by Herbert Read, John Wells, H.S. Ede and the American painter George L.K. Morris.

Ben NICHOLSON (1894 – 1982) Rooftops, Penzance, 1948 Pencil on paper 14 x 20 ½ inches / 35 x 52 cm Signed, inscribed and dated June 14th 1948 verso Provenance: England and Co, London The Collection of Ronald Alley Private Collection, UK Exhibited: Ben Nicholson, Tate Gallery, London, 19th June – 27th July 1969, no. 77 Literature: Ben Nicholson, Paintings, Reliefs and Drawings volume I, Herbert Read, Lund Humphries London, p.27

Ben NICHOLSON (1894 – 1982) Mug Knife & Cake, c.1927 pencil & crayon on paper signed & dated verso 17 ž x 24 inches / 45.1 x 61 cm Provenance: Dorothy Arning

Ben NICHOLSON (1894 – 1982) 1929 (Still Life with Green Jug), 1929 Oil and Pencil on board 18 x 21 ½ inches / 45.7 x 54.5 cm Provenance: Gimpel Fils, London F.L.S Murray Crane Kalman Gallery, London Private Collection, Berkshire purchased 1971 Exhibited: Paintings of Merit, Crane Kalman Gallery, London, 1957 Hannover, Kestner - Gesellschaft, Ben Nicholson, 26th February – 5th April 1959, cat. no.2, illustrated, with tour to Stadtische Kunsthalle, Mannheim Kunstverein, Hamburg and Museum Folkwang, Essen.

Ben Nicholson, Galerie Beyeler, Basel, 1968, no.4 Picasso and Modern British Art, Tate Britain, London, 15th February - 15th July 2012 Literature: Ben Nicholson, Editions Beyeler Basel, 1968, no.4, ill in colour Ronald Alley, Ben Nicholson, Beaverbrook Newspapers Limited, London, 1962, Ill. in col.

Norbert Lynton, Ben Nicholson, Phaidon, London, 1993, p.39, pl.35, ill. in col.

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Winifred NICHOLSON (1893-1981) St. Feock (St. Ives Harbour verso), c.1928 Oil on canvas 23 x 28 ž inches / 58.5 x 73 cm Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist by first owner and thence by descent Crane Kalman Gallery, London Private collection, London Exhibited: Marine – Paintings of the Sea, Crane Kalman Gallery, London, November 2005 - January 2006

Image of back of canvas

Ben NICHOLSON, O.M. 1894-1982 Still Life with Mug decorated with Stag, 1930 pencil and oil on canvas 12Âź by 14Âź inches / 31 x 36 cm signed and dated 1930 on the canvas overlap Provenance: John Torson, New York His sale, Sotheby's London, 28th March 1962, lot 129, where acquired by Lord & Lady Attenborough Exhibited: London, Browse & Darby, William Nicholson & Ben Nicholson: Paintings & Drawings 1919-1945, 29th June - 30th July 1983, cat. no.27.

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Alfred WALLIS (1855 – 1942) St Ives Harbour, c.1936 Oil on panel 19 x 34 inches / 48.3 x 86.3 cm Provenance: Mrs Adrian Stokes K. H. Vickery, Esq Crane Kalman Gallery, London Private Collection, UK Exhibited: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1968 exhibition, travelled to: Tate Gallery, London, 30th May – 30th June, York City Art Gallery, 6th – 28th July, Aberdeen Art Gallery, 3rd – 25th August, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, 31st August – 22nd September 1968 Alfred Wallis, Crane Kalman Gallery, London, July 1995

Adrian Stokes took this piece of wood to Wallis for him to paint on in 1936.

Alfred WALLIS (1855 – 1942) Two Masters in Stormy Sea, Oil and pencil on card 5 ¼ x 7 ¼ inches / 13.4 x 18.4 cm Provenance: Eardley Knollys, Esq Waddington Galleries Radav Collection and by decent

John WELLS (1907 – 2000) Anchor Studio, West Cornwall, 1959-60 Oil on Masonite 47 ¾ x 23 ¾ inches / 101.3 x 60.3 cm Signed, dated and titled verso Provenance: The Artist

Bryan WYNTER (1915 – 1975) Meander II, 1967 oil on canvas 66 x 84 inches / 167.5 x 213.5 cm Signed, titled & dated verso Provenance: Estate of the Artist Private Collection, London Exhibited: Waddington Galleries, London, 1967, no. 10 Penwith Society, St Ives, 1969, no. 39 City Art Gallery, Plymouth, 1970, no. 109, illus.

Falmouth School of Art, Falmouth, 1975, no. 4 Penwith Society, St Ives, 1976, no. 1 Hayward Gallery, London, Bryan Wynter – Retrospective, Arts Council 1976, no. 66 Penwith Society, St Ives, 1982, no. 20 Tate Gallery, St Ives, Bryan Wynter – Retrospective, 2001 Literature: Michael Bird, Bryan Wynter, Lund Humphries, Farnham 2010, pp. 180–182, pl. 16

Christopher WOOD (1901 – 1930) Cornwall Lifeboat Station, Pencil on paper 4 ½ x 7 inches / 11.5 x 17.8 cm Provenance: Private Collection, UK

Milton AVERY (1885 – 1965) Autumn, 1955 Oil on canvas 24 x 48 inches / 61 x 122 cm Provenance: Private Collection, France

Robert DE NIRO Snr (1922 – 1993) Still Life with Vase of Flowers, Lemons, Chair and Guitar, 1989 Oil on linen 34 x 40 inches / 86.4 x 101.5 cm Signed and dated lower left Provenance: The Estate of the Artist Exhibited: Robert De Niro, Sr. Paintings and Drawings 1948 - 1989, D C Moore Gallery, New York, 6th June – 1st August 2014, ill. in cat.

Robert DE NIRO Snr (1922 – 1993) Still life with Flowers, Chair and Guitar, Watercolour on paper 18 x 24 inches / 45.7 x 61 cm Provenance: Graham Gallery, New York Crane Kalman Gallery, London Private Collection, purchased from the above in March 1986

Helen FRANKENTHALER (1928 – 2011) Untitled, 1979 Acrylic on canvas board 9 x 12 inches / 22.9 x 30.5 cm HF13189 Provenance: Private Collection, New York, gift from the artist

Hans HOFMANN Provincetown - Town and Harbour, 1936 oil on panel 25 x 30 inches / 63.5 x 76.2 cm Signed and dated bottom right Inscribed and dedicated verso From us to you! Hans and Renate Hofmann, Xmas 1965 HH cat no. 178-1936 Provenance: The Artist Private Collection, purchased 1965 Private Collection, purchased 1984 Crane Kalman Gallery, London Private Collection, Berkshire purchased from the above in 1990 Exhibited: Hans Hofmann, Kootz Gallery, New York, 27th April – 20 May 1955 Hans Hofmann, Crane Kalman Gallery, London 1990, ill. in cat in colour, no.2

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Hans HOFMANN (1880 – 1966) Balance in Black, Blue and White, 1947 Oil on Panel 35 x 30 inches / 88.9 x 76.2 cm Signed lower right Hans Hofmann Painting on verso HH Cat No 519-1947 Provenance: Shary Grossman Fine Art, New York (2007) Loretta Howard Gallery, New York Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London Private Collection, London purchased from the above in 2007

HANS HOFMANN (1880-1966) To Miz - Pax Vobiscum, 1968 Tapestry woven by Pinton 0 in edition of 7 69 x 75 inches / 175.3 x 190.5 cm Provenance: AndrĂŠ Emmerich Gallery, New York Crane Kalman Gallery, London Private Collection, London purchased from the above in 2004 Literature: Gloria F. Ross and Modern Tapestry, Ann Lane Hedlund, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2010, ill in colour pl.33, p.185 The above tapestry was published by Gloria F. Ross in 1979 in association with the AndrĂŠ Emmerich Gallery, New York.

Adolph GOTTLIEB (1903 – 1974) The Watchers, 1941-1942 Oil on canvas 30 x 24 inches / 76.2 x 61 cm Signed (l.l.): Adolph Gottlieb Provenance: Peter Lauck III, Princeton (acquired in 1947) and by descent Private Collection, London This work is registered in the archives of the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, New York, under inventory #4687.

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Robert MOTHERWELL (1915-1991) U.S. Art New York N.Y., 1962 Oil and pasted paper on paper 29 x 23 inches / 73.7 x 58.4 cm RM12667, C132 Provenance: Dedalus Foundation, New York.

Linda Hyman Gallery, New York.

Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York.

Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London.

Exhibited: Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, New Paintings in Oil and Collages by Robert Motherwell, 1962, no. 14 (illustrated, n.p.).

Museum of Modern Art, New York, Robert Motherwell, 1965 (illustrated, p. 41). This exhibition later travelled to Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels; Museum Folkwang, Essen; Galleria Civicad'Arte Moderna, Turin.

Centro de Artes Visuales del Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Robert Motherwell: Works on Paper, 1967 (circulated by the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; shown in conjunction with Drawings by Arshile Gorky). This exhibition later travelled to Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas, Caracas; Biblioteca Luis-Angel Arango del Banco de la Republica, Bogota; Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte, Mexico City.

Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Works by Robert Motherwell, 1969. This exhibition later travelled to Stanford University Museum, Palo Alto.

Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, Robert Motherwell: Works on paper, 2011.

Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, Robert Motherwell: Beside the Sea, 2012 (illustrated, p. 61).

Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, Bonheur de Vivre, 18 March - 27 May 2016 Galerie Boisserée, Cologne, Robert Motherwell, 25th January - 4th March 2017 Literature: Rosenberg, H. "Art and Identity: The Unfinished Masterpiece" in New Yorker, no. 46, 5 January 1963. Illustrated, p. 72.

Rosenberg, H., 1964. The Anxious Object: Art Today and its Audience, New York: Horizon. Illustrated, p. 101.

Edgar, N. "The Satisfaction of Robert Motherwell" in Artnews , no. 6 (October 1965), no. 2 (illustrated, p. 39).

Yau, J., 2012. Robert Motherwell: Beside the Sea. Exh. cat., with introduction by Lise Motherwell and Daniel Ranalli. Provincetown: Provincetown Art Association and Museum, illustrated, p. 61.

Flam, J., Rogers, K., Clifford, T., 2012. Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné1941 – 1991.

New Haven: Yale University Press. Volume 3, p. 95, cat. rais. no. C132.

Robert MOTHERWELL (1915 – 1991) Study in Watercolour No. 1 (In Green and Blue), 1968 Watercolour on paper 30 ½ x 22 inches / 77.5 x 55.9 cm Artist Studio Number D68-597 Provenance: Dedalus Foundation, 1991 Private Collection, 2008 Exhibited: Robert Motherwell: Works on paper, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, 10th October – 26th November 2011 Discursive Abstraction, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, New York, 11th January – 25th February 2012 Literature: Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonne 1941 – 1991, Flam. J., Rogers, K., Clifford, T., 2012, New Haven: Yale University Press Volume 3, p. 514, W262 Robert Motherwell: Works on Paper, Sam Cornish, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, 2001 ill. p. 5

Paul RESIKA Boat in Dockyard, Oil on Paper 13 x 20 inches / 33 x 50.7 cm Signed bottom left

Paul RESIKA High Head, Truno, Massachusetts 1985 Oil on paper 20 ½ x 28 inches / 50 x 71 cm

Mark ROTHKO (1903 - 1970) Encantation, 1944 Mixed media on paper 23 ½ x 29 ½ inches / 60 x 75 cm Signed upper left Provenance: Betty Parsons Gallery, New York Private Collection, London (acquired from the above in the 1940’s) Crane Kalman Gallery, London (acquired from the above in 1999) Private Collection, London Exhibited: Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, 1944 Silence in Painting, Crane Kalman Gallery, London, 21st October – 24th December 1999, cat. no.12 Land of the Free, Home of the Brave -Art/ Basel, Switzerland, 21st - 26th June 2000, Crane Kalman Gallery, London, 4th July – 31st August 2000

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Theodoros STAMOS (1922 – 1997) Infinity Field Jerusalem – Torino Series I, No.2, 1987 Acrylic on canvas 71 ¼ x 65 ¾ inches / 181 x 167 cm Exhibited: Schloss Morsbroich, Städtisches Museum Leverkusen, Theodoros Stamos: Malerei von 1946 bis 1987, 1987, No.43

Theodoros STAMOS (1922-1997) Low Sun, 1961 Oil on canvas 65 x 22 inches / 165.1 x 55.9 cm Signed and dated lower left Provenance: André Emmerich Gallery, New York Private Collection, New York Sotheby’s New York 22.05.1975, lot. 321 Loui’s K. Meisel Gallery, New York Private Collection New York Crane Kalman Gallery, London Private Collection, London Literature: Ralph Pomeroy, Stamos, New York, 1970, p.154

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