Two and Two I

Artist William Scott (1913 - 1989)

Date1963

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions100 x 125 cm

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineCollection & image © Hugh Lane Gallery. Donated by the Contemporary Irish Art Society, 1967. © The Estate of William Scott.

Object number1261

DescriptionScott's paintings of the period between 1963 and 1965, when he was Ford Foundation Artist in residence in Berlin, of which 'Two and Two I' is an example, are more wholeheartedly abstract than any of his other work. In this painting, shapes based on irregular variants of the square and circles are disposed hieratically on the flat surface of the canvas. Texturously painted, in tones of russet, brown and white with some inflections, these contemplative, minimal shapes float on a thin flat colour ground and create internal tensions which here are only controlled by the white figures clinging to the edge of the canvas. This, and other paintings of the same period, are concerned with inner relationships rather than outside references.

(Extract from 'Images and Insights', Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin, 1993, p. 122)

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