ID 1472877
Lot 12 | WILLIAM SCOTT, R.A. (1913-1989)
Estimate value
£ 300 000 – 500 000
Blue and White
signed 'W. SCOTT' (lower right)
oil on canvas
40 x 50 in. (101.6 x 127 cm.)
Painted in 1958.
Provenance
with Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, January 1963.
with Offer Waterman, London, October 2001.
with Richard Green, London.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 19 November 2013, lot 93.
with Richard Green, London, where purchased by the present owner in January 2015.
Literature
A. Bowness (ed.), William Scott: Paintings, London, 1964, n.p., no. 92, illustrated.
P. Holmes, 'Report Card: William Scott RA', Art Review, 2002, p. 28, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Modern British Art, London, Offer Waterman, 2002, pp. 21-22, exhibition not numbered, illustrated.
S. Whitfield (ed.), William Scott: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings 1952-1959, Vol. 2, London, 2013, p. 238, no. 362, illustrated.
Exhibited
New York, Martha Jackson Gallery, William Scott 1952-1962, September - October 1962, exhibition not numbered, illustrated, as 'Blue and White Painting'.
New York, Martha Jackson Gallery, A Survey of Gallery Exhibitions, 1964.
Buffalo, Anderson Gallery, William Scott: Memorial Exhibition, September - October 1992, no.16.
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 |
| Address of auction |
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