A complex gift for simplicity William Nicholson was an artist of great talents - why then is he so underrated? asks Paul Johnson

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: August 15, 2004| Author: Paul Johnson | Copyright information

William Nicholson

by Sanford Schwartz

Yale, pounds 35, 296 pp

pounds 35 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222

IF I WERE starting a career as a young collector, Sir William Nicholson would be high on my list. Of the top-rank British painters of the first half of the 20th century he is the most underrated and undervalued. It may be that the exhibition of his work at the Royal Academy this autumn will begin his ascent to favour.

Sanford Schwartz, who has put the e...

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