ID 1388299
Lot 19 | WILLIAM SCOTT, R.A. (1913-1989)
Estimate value
£ 250 000 – 350 000
Interior
signed 'W. SCOTT' (lower right)
oil on canvas
65 7/8 x 39 7/8 in. (167.4 x 101.3 cm.)
Painted in 1958.
Provenance
with Hanover Gallery, London.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 26 February 1986, lot 437, as 'Composition', where purchased by the previous owner.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
N. Lynton, William Scott, London, 2004, n.p., pl. 152.
S. Whitfield (ed.), William Scott: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings 1952-1959, Vol. 2 , London, 2013, pp. 252-253, no. 376, illustrated.
Exhibited
Zürich, Galerie Charles Lienhard, William Scott, November - December 1959, no. 7.
Hannover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, William Scott, June - July 1960, no. 36: this exhibition travelled to Münich, City Art Gallery, January - February 1961.
Belfast, Ulster Museum, William Scott, June - August 1986, no. 39, as 'Blue abstract': this exhibition travelled to Dublin, Guinness Hop Store, August - September; and Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, October - November.
Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art, William Scott: Paintings and Drawings, July - November 1998, p. 77, no. 43, illustrated.
Further Details
We are very grateful to The William Scott Foundation for their assistance in preparing this catalogue entry.
| Artist: | William Scott (1913 - 1989) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Artist: | William Scott (1913 - 1989) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Address of auction |
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