WILLIAM SCOTT, R.A. (1913-1989)

Lot 36
21.03.2023 18:00UTC +00:00
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£ 400 000
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ID 922553
Lot 36 | WILLIAM SCOTT, R.A. (1913-1989)
Estimate value
£ 400 000 – 600 000
WILLIAM SCOTT, R.A. (1913-1989)

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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