Lot 199
PETER NELSON (BRITISH 1928-2009)
OUTDOOR WALL LIGHT, 1960
Auction: 30 October from 10:00 GMT
Description
model 421, enamelled metal and plastic
Dimensions
82cm high, 22cm wide (32 ¼in high, 8 5/8in wide)
Provenance
Anderson & Garland, Newcastle, Peter Nelson Studio Sale, September 2010, lot 553, where acquired by the present owner;
From a Private Collection of Post-War British Lighting.
Footnote
The present example is a rare survivor, removed from outside the Peter Nelson Studio. A technical drawing for the work, dated December 1960, was offered in the Anderson & Garland sale (Lot 517), documenting one of Nelson’s earliest explorations into lighting design.