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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 14, 2012 | Bonhams | London | 20th Century British and Irish Art | 94 | $****** - ****** | Still Life on Brown with Beans (1978) |
paintings
61 x 61 cm (24.02 x 24.02 in)
oil on canvas
signed 'W.SCOTT' (verso)
:~With Gallery Moos, Toronto~With Martha Jackson Gallery, New York~The artist~With Gimpel Fils, London~With Beaux Arts, Bath, where purchased by the present owner circa 1983~~
:~Toronto, Gallery Moos, William Scott, 7-25 October 1978 ~London, Gimpel Fils, William Scott. Every Picture Tells a Story, 26 February-30 March 1985, no.33 (dated c.1978)~~
on the artist, Norbert Lynton comments:~~'The main difference between these late paintings and their early precursors is of course the new works' concentration on just a few items: a fish on a plate where there were several, a plate with a few green beans where they would have been accompanied by many other kitchen items. The tabletop is almost always up-ended now to fill the surface as a ground, and thus loses its connotation. An exception is Orchard of Pears No. 6 (1976-77), in which three pears are on a plate and two are beside it, on a grey ground that may represent a table.' (Norbert Lynton, William Scott, Thames and Hudson, London, 2004, p.354).~~In keeping with Lynton's observations, Still Life on Brown with Beans simply incorporates four vertical beans and a bowl. Whilst it is likely the brown background is representative of a tablecloth, this is not implicit and the movement of a bean off the canvas together with the linear nature of the bowl lends a minimalist abstraction to the picture.
