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Patrick Scott HRHA (b.1921) ROMANTIC LANDSCAPE inscribed label on reverse tempera on unp...

Currency:EUR Category:Everything Else / Other Start Price:NA Estimated At:8,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR
Patrick Scott HRHA (b.1921) ROMANTIC LANDSCAPE inscribed label on reverse tempera on unp...
Patrick Scott HRHA (b.1921)
ROMANTIC LANDSCAPE
inscribed label on reverse
tempera on unprimed canvas
76 by 84cm., 30 by 33in.
Provenance:
Dawson Gallery, Dublin;
James Stafford Esq.
In 1960 Scott made a technical discovery which would eventually lead to his renowned series of gold leaf paintings. Dorothy Walker has related that at this time Scott was making frequent journeys from Dublin to Loughrea, Co. Galway, to supervise the decoration of a private home. As the train crossed the midland bogs, Scott was struck by the ethereal nature of the light, diffused as it so often was through mist and rain. It was in an attempt to capture this effect that he experimented with applying paint onto unprimed, moistened canvas, allowing the paint to soak in and thereby dissolve any visible traces of brushstrokes. The result, as Walker has written, was that he captured the "subtlety, elusiveness, almost hallucinatory quality of the Irish twilight, with the inherent sadness of the bog, in superb paintings which remain at the highest level of his work". (Dorothy Walker, Patrick Scott, Douglas Hyde Gallery, TCD, 1981, pp.23-24).
€8,000-€10,000 (IR £6,200-£7,8 00 approx.)
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