Theme Brown Linear 1

Details

William Scott, R.A. (1913-1989)
Theme Brown Linear 1
signed 'W. Scott' (lower right)
watercolour and gouache
22 x 30 in. (55.9 x 76.2 cm.)
Executed circa 1972.
This work is recorded in the William Scott Archive as No. 1017 and will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné.

Provenance

with Falchi Arte Moderna, Milan, where purchased by the present owner.

Exhibited

Milan, Falchi Arte Moderna, William Scott, October 1972, no. 13.

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Lot Essay

Scott worked on several paintings with a similar motif to the one seen here in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The motifs in the present lot are similar to the Berlin Blues series of 1965-66, and in a Hanover Gallery exhibition of 1965 which was largely made up of such works, Norbert Lynton wrote that, 'His colour, which had shown an earthly vigour, has become dainty. His forms tend toward the whimsical. Perhaps we are seeing Scott's paintings at a transitional and possibly undecided moment' (see N. Lynton, William Scott, London, 2004, p. 288).

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