Still Life with a Cockerel

Details

William Scott, R.A. (1913-1989)
Still Life with a Cockerel
signed 'W SCOTT' (lower right)
oil on canvas
19¾ x 23¾ in. (50.2 x 60.3 cm.)
Painted 1949-50.
This work is recorded in the William Scott Archive as No. 1562.

Provenance

Howard Bliss, London.
with Hanover Gallery, London.
with Martha Jackson Gallery, New York.
R.J. Fusillo, USA.
with Gallery One, London, where purchased by the present owner.

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, William Scott, Los Angeles, Esther-Robles Gallery, 1961, no. 1, illustrated.

Exhibited

Japan, Third International Art Exhibition, 1955; this exhibition travelled to Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Fukuoka, Sasheho, Ube, Takamatsu and Hiroshima.
London, Hanover Gallery, William Scott Paintings Sculpture, September - October 1956, no. 1, dated as 1949.
Los Angeles, Esther-Robles Gallery, William Scott, January 1961, no. 1, dated as 1947-48.

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Lot Essay

A related composition titled Italian Cockerel, 1949, of the same dimensions as the present work was exhibited Belfast, Ulster Museum, William Scott, June - August 1986, catalogue number 18 (see R. Alley and T.P. Flanagan, exhibition catalogue, William Scott, Belfast, Ulster Museum, 1986, p. 54, illustrated p. 25). In Italian Cockerel, the artist arranged the still life of the bird, a bowl and three lemons on a table-top in a comparable manner to Still Life with Cockerel. Writing in 1950, on the occasion of a small retrospective at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London, Scott was able to review his development in the following terms, 'During the last ten years I have aimed at expressing my ideas in as direct and simple a manner as possible, taking for my subjects things seen, which are common and ordinary, believing that the poetry of the subject will be in the painting of it' (see R. Alley, op. cit., p. 15).

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