
William Scott
40 x 66 in
Provenance
Hanover Gallery, London
Sir Basil Spence, London, and thence by descent
Private Collection, UK
Exhibitions
London, Hanover Gallery, William Scott: Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings, September - October 1956, no. 5.
Venice, British Council British Pavilion, XXIX Venice Biennale, 1958, no. 45: part of this exhibition travelled to Paris, Musée Nationale d'Arte Moderne, November 1958, no. 96; Brussels, Palais des Beaux Arts, March 1959, no. 92; Zürich, Kunsthaus, April - May 1959, no. 46.
Bern, Kunsthalle, Victor Pasmore William Scott, July - August 1963, no. 11: part of this exhibition travelled to Belfast, Ulster Museum, September - October 1963, no. 8.
London, Tate Gallery, 54:64 Painting and Sculpture, 1964, no. 179. Totnes, Arts Council, Dartington College of Art, Corsham painters and sculptors, July - August 1965, no. 154: this exhibition travelled to Sheffield, Graves Art Gallery, August - September 1965; Walsall, Art Gallery, September - October 1965; Cambridge, Arts Council Gallery, October 1965 and Middlesbrough, November - December 1965.
London, Tate Gallery, William Scott, April - May 1972, no. 46.
London, Royal Academy, British Painting 1952 - 1977, September - November 1977, no. 37.
Cork, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery and touring, ROSC '80 Irish Art 1943-1973, August 1980 - February 1981, no. 101.
2016, London, Piano Nobile, Aspects of Abstraction: 1952-2007, 17 May - 23 June 2016, cat. no. 3, col. ill. p. 17.
Literature
Erica Brausen, letter to William Scott, 1 September 1956.
Reg Butler, letter to William Scott, [September] 1956.
B. Taylor, 'The Paintings of William Scott' in Arts Magazine, p. 41, No. 31, November 1956, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, XXIX Venice Biennale, Venice, British Council Pavilion, 1958, no. 45, illustrated.
A. Denny, Basil Spence in Canonbury, House and Garden, circa 1960.
A. Bowness, William Scott: Paintings, London, 1964, p. 36, no. 73, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, 54:64 Painting and Sculpture, London, Tate Gallery, 1964, no. 179, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, William Scott: Paintings Drawings and Gouaches 1938-1971, London, Tate Gallery, 1972, no. 46, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, British Painting 1952-1977, London, Royal Academy of Arts, 1977, no. 37, illustrated.
N. Lynton, William Scott, London, 2004, p. 182, no. 111, illustrated.
S. Whitfield (ed.) and L. Inglis (ass. ed.), William Scott: Catalogue Raisonné of Oil Paintings Vol II 1952-1959 (London with William Scott Foundation, 2013), cat. no. 295, illustrated.