English painter Ben Nicholson gains international acclaim for his paintings in the Abstract style.

After his first exhibition of figurative works in London in 1922, his work had begun to be influenced by Synthetic Cubism, and later by the primitive style of Rousseau.

In London, Nicholson had met the sculptors Barbara Hepworth (to whom he will be married from 1938 to 1951) and Henry Moore.

On visits to Paris he has met Mondrian, whose work in the neoplastic style is to influence him in an abstract direction, and Picasso, whose cubism will also find its way into his work.

His gift, however, is the ability to incorporate these European trends into a new style that is recognizably his own.

He had first visited St. Ives, Cornwall in 1928 with his fellow painter Christopher Wood, where he met the fisherman and painter, Alfred Wallis.

In Paris in 1933, he makes his first wood relief, White Relief, which contained only right angles and circles.