ID 922553
Lot 36 | WILLIAM SCOTT, R.A. (1913-1989)
Estimate value
£ 400 000 – 600 000
Interior
signed 'W. SCOTT' (lower right)
oil on canvas
66 1/8 x 39 3/4 in. (168 x 101.1 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
Exhibition catalogue, William Scott: Paintings and Drawings, Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art, 1998, p. 77, no. 43, illustrated.
N. Lynton, William Scott, London, 2004, n.p., pl. 152.
S. Whitfield (ed.), William Scott: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, Vol. 2 1952-1959, 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 Mu¨nich, 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 1986; and Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, October - November 1986.
Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art, William Scott: Paintings and Drawings, July - November 1998, no. 43.
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| Artist: | William Scott (1913 - 1989) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Artist: | William Scott (1913 - 1989) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
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