Primulas on a Table

Inscription: Signed (lower left): Nicholson

[Beaux Arts Gallery, London, 1928–48; purchased from the artist; sold on April 5, 1948 to Roland, Browse & Delbanco]; [Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London, 1948–49; sold on September 9, 1949 to Astor]; Mary Cushing Astor, later Mrs. James W. Fosburgh, New York (1949–d. 1978; her bequest to MMA)

Glasgow. Alex Reid & Lefevre, Ltd. "Exhibition of Paintings by William Nicholson," April 1928, no. 25 (as "Primulas").

Liverpool. Walker Art Gallery. "Fifty-Sixth Autumn Exhibition," September–December 1928, no. 1082 (as "Primulas").

Glasgow. McLellan Galleries. "The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Sixty-Eighth Annual Exhibition," October 5–December 14, 1929, no. 547 (as "Primulas").

Museum and Art Gallery, Nottingham Castle. "William Nicholson, Retrospective Exhibition," March 11–April 20, 1933, no. 6 (as "Primulas", lent by the Beaux Arts Gallery).

London. Beaux Arts Gallery. "Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by William Nicholson," May 1–June 2, 1933, no. 3 (as "Primulas").

Manchester City Art Gallery. "Works by William Nicholson," June 24–July 23, 1933, no. 16 (as "Primulas").

Scarborough Public Library. "Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by William Nicholson," August 4–September 2, 1933, no. 40 (as "Primulas").

Folkestone. Public Art Gallery. "Exhibition of Paintings and Lithographs by William Nicholson," October 30–November 28, 1933, no. 39 (as "Primulas").

Belfast. Museum and Art Gallery. "Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Prints by William Nicholson," closed February 17, 1934, no. 58 (as "Primulas").

Lincoln, England. Usher Art Gallery. "Exhibition of Paintings and Lithographs by William Nicholson," July 7–August 7, 1934, no. 52 (as "Primulas").

Newark, England. Newark Municipal Museum. "Exhibition of Paintings by William Nicholson," September 24–October 24, 1934, no. 6 (as "Primulas").

London. Beaux Arts Gallery. "Summer Exhibition," July 22–September 26, 1936, no catalogue.

London. Beaux Arts Gallery. "Exhibition of Early Paintings by Richard Sickert and William Nicholson," May 5–26, 1939, no. 21 (as "Primulas").

Warminster. Lord Weymouth's Grammar School. "Exhibition of Paintings from the Beaux Arts Gallery, London, by Sir William Nicholson, Richard Sickert and other Eminent Artists," February 11–March 30, 1941, no. 12 (as "Primulas").

London. Roland, Browse & Delbanco. "Pictures by William Nicholson and Josef Herman," April–May 1948, no. 44 (as "Primulas").

Lillian Browse. William Nicholson. London, 1956, pp. 24, 94, no. 386, pl. 25, calls it "Mauve Primulas on Table".

Patricia Reed. William Nicholson: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings. London, 2011, p. 478, no. 603, ill. (color), calls it "Mauve Primulas on a Table".