A William Nicholson (1872-1949) portrait drew admirers at Thomas R Callan (17.5% buyer’s premium) on November 19 as it was hammered down for £150,000.
The framed oil on canvas, The Yellow Jersey, shows a young woman, thought to be Nicholson’s only daughter, Annie Mary ‘Nancy’ (1899-1978), in an ostrich plume hat. It was included in Callan’s Fine Traditional and Contemporary Art Sale, at the Trump Turnberry Hotel in Ayrshire.
Signed and dated 1913, this oil had been exhibited at Nicholson’s second show in the Goupil Galleries, London, in 1918 and again in Liverpool in 1927. Bearing labels for both, it came for sale from a deceased estate in Scotland.