Blue Pot with Three Pears

細節

William Scott, R.A. (1913-1989)
Blue Pot with Three Pears
signed and dated 'W. SCOTT 55' (upper right)
oil on board
15½ x 19¾ in. (39.4 x 50.2 cm.)
This work is recorded in the William Scott Archive as No. 786 and will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné.

來源

with Hanover Gallery, London.
with Galleria Lorenzelli, Bergamo, Italy.

出版

Exhibition catalogue, William Scott, La voce dei colori, Milan, Lorenzelli Arte, 2005, p. 33, no. 3, illustrated.

展覽

London, Hanover Gallery, Bacon Scott Sutherland, June - July 1955, no. 9.
Milan, Lorenzelli Arte, William Scott, La voce dei colori, March - May 2005, no. 3.

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拍品專文

Scott returned to painting still life compositions in 1955, moving away from the abstract works that he was producing in the three years before this. He used pears and saucepans as the key elements in these still lifes and, as we see in the present lot, the surface is very dense. Scott himself said of another work of this series, Composition I: Pots and Pears, 1955, 'The pots and pears in this picture have certain shapes that I always use. They're the shapes that have come about very slowly through the years, they've evolved from my early paintings. Perhaps they are very fundamental shapes. Some people may feel there's some kind of erotic feel about them. If that's so, it's probably due to my love for the primitive and for the elemental' (see N. Lynton, William Scott, London, 2004, p. 148).