Just over two years later, on March 30 at Bath auctioneers Aldridges (15% buyer’s premium), a private commission buyer set what appears to be a record auction offer for a work by Nicholson on paper when bidding reached £8000 for this signed and dated 1967 pastel, right, entitled A Nest of Rock Roses. The 15 x 22in (38 x 56cm) drawing had been formerly owned by the late David. R. MacGregor, a naval historian, who had bought it from the Crane Kalman Gallery in 1969, and it had remained untouched in its original frame ever since.
Collector sets auction record for Winifred Nicholson pastel
ONE of the hottest Modern British names in the last few years, has been Winifrid Nicholson (1893-1981), whose half-length portrait of her husband Ben Nicholson made a record £100,000 at Lawrence’s, Crewkerne in January 2002.
