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Property from a Prestigious British Private Collection

William Scott

Standing Figure

Auction Closed

November 23, 03:04 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 GBP

Lot Details

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Property from a Prestigious British Private Collection

William Scott

1913 - 1989

Standing Figure


watercolour and gouache on paper collage laid on card

unframed: 166 by 101cm.; 39¾ by 65¼in

framed: 172.5 by 107cm.; 68 by 42in.

Executed in 1957.


This work is registered in the William Scott Archive as number 74.

Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover

Professor Gustav Stein Collection, Cologne

Sotheby's, London, 20 April 1966, lot 178 (as Standing Nude)

Private collection

Sale, Sotheby's London, 21 June 1995, lot 133 (as Standing Nude), where acquired by the present owner

Hannover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, William Scott, 2 June – 17 July 1960, no. 23, with tour to Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund and Stadtische Galerie, Munich

Ronald Alley, William Scott, London, Methuen, 1963, illustrated

Alan Bowness, William Scott: Paintings, Lund Humphries, London, 1964, no. 75, illustrated n.p. (as Standing Nude)

Norbert Lynton, William Scott, Thames and Hudson, London, 2004, no. 98, illustrated p. 169 (as Standing Nude (Standing Figure))

Sarah Whitfield (ed.), William Scott, Catalogue Raisonné of Oil Paintings Vol. 2, Thames & Hudson, London, 2013, illustrated p. 187, fig. b