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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 12, 2018 | Sotheby's | London | Modern & Post-War British Art Evening Sale | 26 | $****** - ****** | BERLIN BLUES 2 |
paintings
161 x 173 cm (63.39 x 68.11 in)
oil on canvas
signed on the stretcher bar
Hanover Gallery, London
Dawson Gallery, Dublin
Dr Ronald Tallon and thence by descent to the present owners
London, The Hanover Gallery, William Scott Recent Paintings, 28th September - 22nd October 1965, cat. no.12, illustrated;
Zurich, Gimpel & Hanover Galerie, William Scott Neue Bilder und Aquarelle, 25th March - 26th April 1966, cat. no.7;
Dublin, Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, ROSC '71: The Irish Imagination 1959-71, 23rd October 1971 - 5th May 1972, cat. no.84 (as Berlin Blues, 1964-5), with tour;
London, Tate, William Scott: Paintings Drawings and Gouaches 1938-1971, 19th April - 29th May 1972, cat. no.85 (as Berlin Blues I);
Cork, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, ROSC '80: Irish Art 1943-1973, 24th August 1980 - February 1981, cat. no.102, with tour (details untraced);
Belfast, Ulster Museum, William Scott, 13th June - 16th November 1986, cat. no.54 (as Berlin Blues I), illustrated p.66, with tour to Guinness Hop Store, Dublin and National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh;
Dublin, Royal Hibernian Academy, Gallagher Gallery, William Scott, 12th - 27th September 1990, cat. no.7;
Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art, William Scott: Paintings and Drawings, 22nd July - 1st November 1998, cat. no.64 (as Berlin Blues 1, 1964);
Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Shifting Ground: Selected Works of Irish Art 1950 - 2000, 10th November 2000 - 18th February 2001, cat. no.61 (as Berlin Blues, 1964).
Jane Stockwood, 'William Scott at Work in Somerset and London', Harpers and Queen, March 1972, p.92;
William Scott, letter to Anne Crookshank, 19th January 1973;
Norbert Lynton, William Scott, Thames and Hudson, London, 2004, pp.282-3, 284, 288, illustrated;
Dr Ronald Tallon, letter to Robert Scott, 28th June 2004;
Sarah Whitfield (ed.), William Scott: Catalogue Raisonné of Oil Paintings, Vol.3, 1960-1968, Thames & Hudson in association with the William Scott Foundation, London, 2013, cat. no.584, pp.206-207, illustrated.
signed on the stretcher bar
oil on canvas
161 by 173cm.; 63½ by 68¼in.
Executed in 1965.
