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William Scott OBE (1913-1989) BLACK AND WHITE ON OCHRE signed and dated [1972] lower right<...

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William Scott OBE (1913-1989) BLACK AND WHITE ON OCHRE signed and dated [1972] lower right<...
William Scott OBE (1913-1989)
BLACK AND WHITE ON OCHRE
signed and dated [1972] lower right
gouache
58 by 79cm., 23 by 31in.
Exhibited:
Lister Gallery, Perth, 1977;
Julian Lax Gallery, 1999
This work is recorded in the William Scott archive as no. 933.
William Scott was born in Greenock, Scotland, and came to live with his family in his father's home town, Enniskillen, County Fermanagh in 1924. He studied at the Belfast College of Art and The Royal Academy, London. Scott lived in France in 1938/39, then briefly in Dublin before settling in England. He exhibited throughout the world and was honoured with many international awards. A major retrospective exhibition of Scott's work was held at The Tate Gallery in 1972. His work is included in most major collections in Europe and America and he is regarded as one of the world's foremost artists of the 20th century.
His work of the 1930s and 1940s was predominantly still life but in the 1950s he turned to abstract painting, and he slowly and methodically developed his style to produce the critically acclaimed masterpieces of the height of his career in the 1960s and 1970s.
Anne Crookshank's remarks, written in 1975, apply very much to the work offered here: "The spaciousness, the sense of light and air, the understanding and exquisite use of white all help to give an enveloping serenity to his recent pictures."
€12,000-€15,000 (IR £9,400-£11,700 approx.)