Title
The exhibition
1900
printed 1967
Artist
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Details
- Dates
- 1900
printed 1967 - Media category
- Materials used
- woodcut
- Dimensions
- 7.1 x 7.4 cm block; 16.0 x 14.2 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Hendrik Kolenberg 2013. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 153.2013
- Copyright
- © Estate of Sir William Nicholson/Bridgeman Art Library
- Artist information
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Sir William Nicholson
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About
NICHOLSON worked as a wood engraver, illustrator, theatre designer, painter and lithographer. From the mid 1890s he collaborated with his brother-in-law, James Pryde, on a series of posters and illustrated books broadly based on the poster style of Toulouse-Lautrec and Bonnard. He made his first appearance as a woodcut artist in the influential magazine, ‘The Dome’ 1897. Most of his experimentation with woodcut illustrations (characterised by effects of massed shadow and bold outline) came pre-1900, although he contributed to journals spasmodically until the 1920s. Nicholson’s later career was almost entirely spent painting. He was knighted in 1936.
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Provenance
Hendrik Kolenberg, Sydney/New South Wales/Australia, Gift of Hendrik Kolenberg 2013.
William Weston Gallery, London/England, Purchased by Kolenberg 1976