Still Life with Frying Pan

Details

William Scott, R.A. (1913-1989)
Still Life with Frying Pan
oil on canvas
26¼ x 32 in. (66.7 x 81.3 cm.)
This work is recorded in the William Scott Archive as no. 782.
Painted circa 1947-48

Provenance

E.M. Behrens, by whom purchased at the 1948 exhibition, and by descent.

Literature

R. Alley, William Scott Art in Progress Series, London, 1963, illustrated as 'Still Life' and dated to 1949.

Exhibited

London, Leicester Galleries, William Scott, October 1948, no. 16.
London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Painters' Progress, 1950, no. 90.
Hannover, Kestner Gesellschaft, William Scott, June-July 1960, no. 6, illustrated.
Dortmund, Museum am Ostwall, William Scott, September-October 1960, no. 6, illustrated.
London, Tate Gallery, William Scott Paintings Drawings and Gouaches, April-May 1972, no. 12.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Discussing Scott's still life paintings of the late 1940s, Alan Bowness (William Scott: Paintings, London, 1964, p. 7) comments: 'The elements themselves are of the simplest - an earthenware bowl, a black frying pan, an iron tosating fork, a white cloth, a bare kitchen table. They are all old country objects, known to Scott from childhood, and permanently familiar. Though he always painted from memory and not from the objects themselves, some were in fact hanging on the walls at Hallatrow where he worked. He called them: 'symbols of the life I know best ... things that I think make some kind of basic impression in my painting'.

Still Life with Frying Pan could not have been painted as late as 1949 as suggested by Ronald Alley in his 1963 booklet on William Scott as it had been purchased the previous year from the exhibition at the Leicester Galleries.

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