WILLIAM SCOTT, R.A. (1913-1989)
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70000GBP £ 70 000
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ID 1388438
Lot 130 | WILLIAM SCOTT, R.A. (1913-1989)
Estimate value
£ 70 000 – 100 000
White Pot and Blue Pot
signed and dated 'W SCOTT 55' (upper right)
oil on canvas
16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm.)
Painted in 1955.
Provenance
with Hanover Gallery, London, where purchased by Colonel Aubrey Gibson in July 1955.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 19 June 1974, lot 151, where purchased by the family of the previous owner.
Their sale; Sotheby's, London, 13 December 2007, lot 147, where purchased by the present owner.
Literature
R. Millen, 'The Art Collectors 2: Colonel Aubrey Gibson', Art and Australia, vol. 2, no. 3, December 1964, pp. 169, 174, illustrated.
S. Whitfield (ed.), William Scott: Catalogue Raisonné of Oil Paintings 1952-1959, Vol. 2, London, 2013, p. 126, no. 271, illustrated.
Exhibited
Melbourne, Victorian Artists Society Galleries, 1956, catalogue not traced.
Melbourne, George's Gallery, British Painting 1900-1965, April 1966.
Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, The Aubrey Gibson Collection, July - September 1969, n.p., no. 84, illustrated.
Further details
We are very grateful to The William Scott Foundation for their assistance in cataloguing this lot.
| Artist: | William Scott (1913 - 1989) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Genre: | Still life |
| 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 |
| Genre: | Still life |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
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