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17th June 2016Lot 88: Numbering differs from image.

Lithograph on Japanese wove paper
Great Britain, 1963
William Scott (1913-1989) – Scottish painter, illustrator and graphic artist
Signed and dated ‘W. Scott 63’ and inscribed ‘H.C.’ in pencil
Hors commerce copy aside from the edition of 65 + XXXV copies
Plate 7 from the portfolio ‘Europäische Graphik I’
Published by Felix H. Man as Edition Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich, 1974 (with their blindstamp)
Ketterer Edition directory 136
Image dimensions: 50.3 x 63.7 cm; sheet dimensions: 50.3 x 66 cm
Good condition
With its composition of nonrepresentational forms in different qualities this print is one of the entire abstract works by the artist

Condition:
The lithograph in colors bears a longer but soft crease to the lower right corner as well as overall occasional short and sharp creases. The left margin is faintly foxed in places, the right margin shows a faint pencil inscription by another hand. The overall condition is good. The image measures 50.3 x 63.7 cm, the sheet 50.3 x 66 cm.

William Scott (1913-1989)
Born in Greenock, Scotland, the painter began to study at the Belfast College of Art in 1928. In 1931 he joined the sculpture class at the Royal Academy Schools in London and graduated in 1935. In his painting work he initially focused on still lifes of objects that are simple but contrasting in shape which he arranged in front of plain backgrounds. So from 1952 to 1954 he came to complete abstraction. A trip to the US and the encounter with the painters Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline aroused his awareness of European painting tradition, leaving him temporarily work again representational. In the late 1960s originated still lifes, in which William Scott combined simple items such as pots and pans with purely abstract forms. (fea)

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