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Property from a Distinguished British Collection

William Scott, R.A.

Brown Composition

This lot has been withdrawn

Lot Details

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Property from a Distinguished British Collection

William Scott, R.A.

1913 - 1989

Brown Composition


signed W. Scott (upper left)

oil on canvas

unframed: 86 by 110.5cm.; 34 by 43½in.

framed: 90.5 by 114.5cm.; 35½ by 45in.

Executed in 1959.

Please note this lot has been withdrawn.

Galerie Charles Lienhard, Zurich

Waddington Galleries, London, where acquired by the husband of the present owner in the late 1960s

Robert Melville, 'William Scott', Motif 8, Winter 1961, illustrated p. 47

Alan Bowness, William Scott: Paintings, Lund Humphries, London, 1964, no. 112, illustrated n.p.

Sarah Whitfield (ed.), William Scott, Catalogue Raisonné of Oil Paintings Vol.2, Thames and Hudson, London, 2013, no. 401, illustrated p. 278

Zurich, Galerie Charles Lienhard, William Scott, 11 November - 12 December 1959, no. 26, illustrated in the catalogue (as Painting)
Düsseldorf, Galerie Alfred Schmela, William Scott, 17 November - 15 December, no. 26 (as Painting)
Hannover, Kunstverein Hannover, 124 Frühjahrsausstellung, 10 March - 14 April 1963, no. 141 (as Painting)