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Patrick Scott HRHA (b.1921) MAGNETIC FIELD signed, inscribed and dated [1960] on reverse<br...

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Patrick Scott HRHA (b.1921) MAGNETIC FIELD signed, inscribed and dated [1960] on reverse<br...
Patrick Scott HRHA (b.1921)
MAGNETIC FIELD
signed, inscribed and dated [1960] on reverse
tempera on hardboard
122 by 152cm., 48 by 60in.
Exhibited:
IELA, 1960, catalogue no. 84;
'Patrick Scott: an exhibition of recent paintings', Dawson Gallery, Dublin, February - March 1961, catalogue no. 15
In many ways 1960 was a seminal year for Scott. He was involved in two major international art events, representing Ireland at the Venice Biennale with a group of eighteen works, and participating along with four other Irish artists (Nano Reid, Louis le Brocquy, Dan O'Neill and Richard Kingston) in the invitation-only Guggenheim International Award in New York, where he won the National Award. Dr Yvonne Scott has identified the artist's dual concerns at this time: registering both the terrestrial environment (as evidenced in the series of bog paintings which he had just begun), and the extra-terrestrial environment, "reflecting the increasing general interest in rocket-age science from the late 1950s"1. These works, with their "stellar explosions" of white paint - spilt, dripped and sprayed - anticipate the Device series of 1962-64 which were in turn painted in reaction to the testing of H-bombs ('devices') at this time2.
1 Yvonne Scott, Patrick Scott: A Retrospective, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, 2002, p.42.
2 Op. cit., p.43
€6,000-€8,000 (IR £4,700-£6,200 approx.)
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