Artist dies
Ben Nicholson, one of Britain's best abstract artists. died on Saturday, British newspapers have reported. He was 87. The “Guardian” said in an obituary that Nicholson was "the greatest English painter of the twentieth century ... The apparent simplicity of his style was deceptive' ... Nicholson was not an artist of any compromise." — London.
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Press, 13 February 1982, Page 12
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