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An artist of rare ingenuity, sharp wit and copious invention, Ben Nicholson was among the leading international modernist artists of the twentieth century. Piano Nobile is pleased to present significant works from several distinct periods of his career. Nicholson’s reputation is partly founded on his pioneering use of relief carving and the display features his first completed relief, made in Paris in December 1933, which has not been in a solo exhibition since the major Nicholson retrospective in 1992/93. Alongside the first completed relief are paintings that illustrate important creative …