My friend Bente invited me to Ventura last week. Peter and Bente introduced me to the BBC’s Fake or Fortune and we watched the program on William Nicholson’s still life Glass Jug with Pears. That same day I had bought an art book and inside I found side by side a Ben Nicholson still life August 1956 (Val d’Orcia) and his father’s still life The Lustre Bowl with Green Peas. Both Nicholsons were wonderful painters—different but wonderful. Ben Nicholson’s still life is in the Tate Britain, London, and William Nicholson’s still life is in the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh.