Blue, Yellow and Red

William Scott

Scott was paintings master at the Bath Academy of Art in Corsham for fifteen years, before successfully exhibiting in America and representing Britain in the Venice Biennale in1958. His still life painting gradually moved from figurative renderings of familiar objects on a kitchen table - pots, pans, glasses, pears - to an informal, personal kind of abstraction whereby the curved forms of bowls, for example, are merely referred to in the sensual lines of his work.

Formerly in the collection of the Hirschorn Museum in Washington, this important work lies at the beginning of Scott's second phase of abstraction.



Artist
William Scott (1913-1989)
Title
Blue, Yellow and Red
Medium
Gouache
Date
1959
Size
35.0 x 59.5 cm : 13 3/4 x 23 1/2 ins
Inscriptions
Signed lower right
Provenance
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York; Joseph Hirschorn, New York, 1961; Gifted to the Hirschorn Museum, Washington D.C., by Joseph Hirschorn, 1966; Private Collection, Canada
Exhibited
Los Angeles, Esther Robles Gallery, January 1961, no.7, illus.
Archive
This work is listed with the William Scott Archive, no. 648
Reference
CC12-86
Status
No Longer Available

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