William Scott 1913-1989
Circles Diminishing, 1961
Oil on canvas
160 x 172.5 cms
62 15/16 x 67 14/16 ins
62 15/16 x 67 14/16 ins
13665
£ 250,000.00
Signed, titled and dated 1961 on the stretcher The present work is registered with the William Scott Archive as no. 123. We are grateful for their help in cataloguing this...
Signed, titled and dated 1961 on the stretcher
The present work is registered with the William Scott Archive as no. 123. We are grateful for their help in cataloguing this work.
This painting characterises the increasing abstraction of Scott's work following the figures and table-top still lives of the 1950s. In 1959 Mark Rothko had stayed with the Scotts in Somerset, England, and large-scale paintings such as the present work suggest that Scott was competing with American Abstract Expressionism in the ambitions for his work.
The present work is registered with the William Scott Archive as no. 123. We are grateful for their help in cataloguing this work.
This painting characterises the increasing abstraction of Scott's work following the figures and table-top still lives of the 1950s. In 1959 Mark Rothko had stayed with the Scotts in Somerset, England, and large-scale paintings such as the present work suggest that Scott was competing with American Abstract Expressionism in the ambitions for his work.
Provenance
Hanover Gallery, LondonAcquired from the above in 1966
Private Collection
Exhibitions
London, Hanover Gallery, William Scott, 1961, no. 8, illustratedLisbon, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, and travelling, Arte Britanica no seculo XX, 1962, no. 63, illustrated in colour
Eindhoven, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Kompas 2. Contemporary Paintings in London, 1962, no. 74, illustrated in colour
Bern, Kunsthalle, Victor Pasmore William Scott, 1963, no. 35, illustrated in colour
Belfast, Ulster Museum, William Scott, 1963, no. 38, illustrated
Southampton, Southampton City Art Gallery, 1966-1967, temporary loan, details untraced
London, The Tate Gallery, and travelling, Recent British Painting. Peter Stuyvesant Foundation Collection, 1967, no. 17, pp. 54-55, illustrated.
Literature
Robert Melville, 'William Scott', Motif 8, Winter 1961, p. 43, illustrated in colourAlan Bowness, William Scott: Paintings, London 1964, no. 124, illustrated
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