Winifred Nicholson British, 1893-1981
The Pepper Tree, c. 1964
Oil on Canvas
66.5 x 66.5 cm
Inscribed verso by the artist, “Painted from the Belle Hélène Hotel – Mykene (Mycenae) The Pepper Tree and beyond Mount Taggitus in the distance Wild Grape Hyacinths from the mountains...
Inscribed verso by the artist,
“Painted from the Belle Hélène Hotel – Mykene (Mycenae)
The Pepper Tree and beyond Mount Taggitus in the distance
Wild Grape Hyacinths from the mountains and ripe almonds from Orestes’ Dassis Garden
Orestes Dassis
Agamemnon Dassis
Constantine Dassis
Are the 3 wise old brothers who are all archiologist and have dug in the ancient Greek sites – Their old father dug with Schlieman
Orestes dug up the wonderful gold cup now famos in the Athens Museum”
Provenance
Crane Kalman Gallery, London
Private Collection, Switzerland, purchased direct from the above in 1967, and thence by decent.
Exhibitions
Paintings and Gouaches by Winifred Nicholson, Crane Kalman Gallery, London, 1st – 25th March 1967