Seated Woman

Artist William Scott (1913 - 1989)

Date1954

MediumCharcoal on paper

Dimensions63 x 48.5 cm

ClassificationsDrawings

Credit LineCollection & image © Hugh Lane Gallery. Donated by Robert Scott and James Scott through the William Scott Foundation, 2014. © The Estate of William Scott Foundation.

Object number2045

DescriptionScott found his subject in the genre of still-life, favouring kitchen utensils in particular. From 1946 to 1956, Scott was senior teacher of painting at Bath Academy, then famous for its avant-garde atmosphere. During the early 1950s Scott visited New York where he met with Abstract Expressionist painters including Pollock, Kline, de Kooning and Rothko. His experience of their work did not encourage him towards abstraction, but rather towards greater scale, increased richness of paint and a more limited colour range. Significantly however, Scott maintained his life-long esteem for French art, in particular Bonnard’s saturated colours and truncated forms, Modigliani's assertive line and Cézanne’s manner of re-configuring his subject-matter. Seated Woman, 1952 is characteristic of Scott’s economy of line and simplification of the figure typical of much of his work in the early 1950s.

On View

Not on view