Lot Essay
"I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of an illusion." -- William Scott
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Still Life, Green Edge
Details
William Scott (1913-1989)
Still Life, Green Edge
signed and dated 'W SCOTT 71' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
39 ½ x 50 in. (100.3 x 127 cm.)
Painted in 1971.
Still Life, Green Edge
signed and dated 'W SCOTT 71' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
39 ½ x 50 in. (100.3 x 127 cm.)
Painted in 1971.
Provenance
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the late owners, 1973
Acquired from the above by the late owners, 1973
Literature
S. Whitfield, ed., William Scott: Catalogue Raisonné of Oil Paintings 1969-1989, vol. 4, London, 2013, p. 76, no. 697 (illustrated).
Exhibited
London, Tate Gallery, William Scott: Paintings, Drawings and Gouaches 1938-1971, April-May 1972, no. 128.
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