Breton portrait

Details

William Scott, R.A. (1913-1989)
Breton portrait
signed and dated 'W SCOTT 39' (lower right)
oil on canvas
13¾ x 11 in. (34.9 x 27.9 cm.)
This work is recorded in the William Scott Archive as no. 769

Literature

R. Alley, William Scott, London, 1963, pl. 3.
A. Bowness, William Scott: Paintings, London, 1964, p. 7.

Exhibited

London, Leger & Son, Paintings by William Scott, September 1942, no. 21 (45 gns.).

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Lot Essay

In 1938 Scott moved with his wife, Mary, to Pont-Aven in Brittany, to run the Pont-Aven School of Painting with Geoffrey Nelson. Scott was particularly interested in the association of the place with Gauguin and his followers, and among his models was an old woman who had sat in her youth for Gauguin. She is the subject of the present portrait (see R. Alley, op. cit., p. 4).

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