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WILLIAM SCOTT, R.A. (1913-1989)
Frying Pan - Still Life, 1947
signed 'W SCOTT' (upper right), signed again and inscribed 'FRYING PAN/STILL LIFE/W. Scott' (on the artist's label attached to the frame)
oil on canvas
19 3/4 x 24 in. (50.4 x 61 cm.)
Painted in 1947.
Provenance
Roger Senhouse, by 1948.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 11 May 1973, lot 148, as 'Frying Pan and Blue Fish', where purchased by the present owner's parents and gifted to the present owner in December 1980.
Literature
H. Read (intro.), exhibition catalogue, Modern British Paintings 1942-1947, Prague, Svaz Ceskeho Dila, 1948, n.p., no. 40, illustrated.
R. Melville, 'William Scott', Motif 8, 1961, p. 32, as 'Frying Pan and Blue Fish', illustrated, not traced.
P. Wakelin, exhibition catalogue, An Art-Accustomed Eye: John Gibbs and art appreciation in Wales 1945-1996, Cardiff, National Museum & Gallery, 2004, p. 72, exhibition not numbered, as 'Frying Pan and Blue Fish', illustrated.
S. Whitfield (ed.), William Scott Catalogue Raisonné of Oil Paintings 1913-1951 Volume 1, London, 2013, p. 169, no. 108, illustrated.
Exhibited
Athens, British Council, British Institute, Modern British Paintings 1942-1947, October - November 1947, no. 40, catalogue not traced: this exhibition travelled to Rome, Studio d'Arte Palma, December 1947; Paris, René Drouin Gallery, January - February 1948; and Prague, Svaz Ceskeho Dila, April 1948.
London, Leicester Galleries, The Recent Paintings of William Scott October 1948, no. 16.
London, Tate Gallery, William Scott Paintings, Drawings and Gouaches 1938-71, April - May 1972, no. 13, as 'Frying Pan and Blue Fish'.
Cardiff, National Museum & Gallery, An Art-Accustomed Eye: John Gibbs and art appreciation in Wales 1945-1996, September 2004 - January 2005, exhibition not numbered, as 'Frying Pan and Blue Fish'.
Special Notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.