William Scott

British, 1913–1989

Seated Figure, 1954

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Medium: Paintings, oil on canvas
Size: 60 x 29 in. (152.4 x 73.7 cm.)
Markings: signed lower left

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About this Artwork

Movement: Post-War
Provenance: Mary Scott
Private collection
Exhibitions: Tokyo Metropolitan Art Gallery, 3rd International Art Exhibition, 20 May- 4 December 1955, illus in b/w as
'Figure', touring to;
Metropolitan Art Gallery, Tokyo, 20 May - 5 June 1955
Sogo Gallery, Osaka, 5 June - 6 July 1955
Culture Hall, Nagoya 13 July - 26 July 1955
Iwataya Gallery, Fukuoka 16 August - 24 August 1955
Public Hall Gallery, Saseho, 8 September - 25 September 1955
Watamabe Memorial Hall, Ube, 1 October - 15 October1955
Modern Art Museum, Takamatsu 23 October - 13 November1955
The Fukuya Tenmaya in Hiroshima, 22 November - 4 December1955
Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, 2 June 1960- 5 February 1961, cat no.16, touring.
Bern, Kunsthalle, Victor Pasmore, William Scott, 12 July- 18 August 1963, ex cat.
Belfast, Ulster Museum, William Scott, 12 September- 5 October 1963, cat no.5
London, Tate Gallery, William Scott: Paintings, Drawings and Gouaches 1938-1971, 19 April-29 May 1972,
no.38, illus in b/w (as 'Seated Figure No.1, 1953', incorrectly identified as Bowness 1964, no.48)
Enniskillen, Fermanagh County Museum, William Scott Still Life Paintings 1946-1978, 19 May-29 September
1979, no.9 (dated 1953, incorrectly identified as having been exhibited at the Martha Jackson Gallery in
1954 and 1956), touring.
Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art, William Scott: Paintings and Drawings, 22 July- 1 November 1998,
no.23, illus in colour (dated 1953)
Wolfsburg, Kunstmuseum, Blast to Freeze: British Art in the 20th Century, 14 September 2002- 11 May
2003, touring.
New York, McCaffrey Fine Art, William Scott, 27 February- 17 April 2010 (dated 1953)
St Ives, Tate, William Scott, 26 January 2013- 2 February 2014, touring.
Literature: British Council Lecture, 1972, slide 39
Margaret Garlake, New Art. New World. British Art in Postwar Society, Yale University Press, New Haven &
London, 1988,pp/203, 204, illus in b/w (as 'Seated Figure No.1', 1953)
Michael Tooby and Simon Morley, William Scott: Paintings and Drawings, Merrell Holberton in association
with the Irish Museum of Modern Art, London, 1998, pp.26, 57, illus in colour.
Norbert Lyndon, William Scott, Thames and Hudson, London, 2004, pp.128, 129, 130, illus in colour (as
'Seated Figure No.2').
Sarah Whitfield, William Scott Catalogue Raisonné of Oil Paintings 1952-1959, Volume 2, 1952-1959, cat
no.249 illus colour p103

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