Ronco
1968 · Etching
Museum of Modern Art
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Ben Nicholson
?–1982
SculptureCubismAbstract ArtConstructivism
Representation
None documented
18
Institutional Exhibitions
17
Works in Collection
38
Assets Indexed
7
Authority-backed Facts
0
Publications Referenced
90%
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Movements
- • Cubism
- • Abstract Art
- • Constructivism
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Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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Abstractions
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1988–1989
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Contrasts of Form: Geometric Abstract Art, 1910�1980
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1985–1986
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Prints from Blocks: Gauguin to Now
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1983
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Abstraction-Cr�ation, Art Non-Figuratif
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1977
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Ways of Looking
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1971
About
Why this artist matters now
Ben Nicholson was a British sculptor whose practice spanned abstract and figurative forms across stone, bronze, and wood. Active from the early twentieth century through the 1980s, he developed a distinctive approach to volumetric composition that engaged with modernist reduction without abandoning representational anchor points. His work bridges constructivist and organic formal traditions, characterised by precise carving and a refined material sensibility.
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Movement
Cubism
Medium
Sculpture
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In collection
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
In collection
Art Institute of Chicago
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