William Scott 1913-1989
Pan and Pears, 1975
gouache and charcoal
57.2 x 76.8 cm
22 1/2 x 30 1/4 in
22 1/2 x 30 1/4 in
signed and dated
1975 This year is unusual in that Scott appears to have painted only one work in oils and even the date of this work is uncertain as it was signed...
1975
This year is unusual in that Scott appears to have painted only one work in oils and even the date of this work is uncertain as it was signed and dated many years later. The artist’s energy seems to have gone into producing works on paper of which over 120 in various media are recorded. Among these was an offset lithograph, Blue Still Life, commissioned by the Department of the Environment and printed by the Curwen Studio. It was the only unlimited print made by Scott.
1976
JANUARY
William Scott, opened at the Gallery Kasahara, Osaka, on 16 January (closed 7 February). The exhibition consisted of six oils, sixteen gouaches and two prints.
Ryunosuke Kasahara, a young art dealer, was an enthusiastic promoter of contemporary western art. The catalogue introduction, ‘Between Realism and Abstraction’, was written by Chuji Ikegami, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Letters at Kobe University. Kasahara had come across Scott’s work through a visit to Gimpel Fils, and had arranged an introduction to the artist through Kenneth Armitage, whose work Kasahara had recently shown.
MAY
The Scotts travelled to Tokyo for the opening of a second exhibition organised by the Gallery Kasahara on 17 May (closed 29 May). The exhibition, which was held in rented premises as Kasahara did not have a gallery in Tokyo, was a larger version of the show held in Osaka in January, and included 11 oils from 1950 to 1976 and 25 gouaches mostly painted in 1975 and 1976.
This year is unusual in that Scott appears to have painted only one work in oils and even the date of this work is uncertain as it was signed and dated many years later. The artist’s energy seems to have gone into producing works on paper of which over 120 in various media are recorded. Among these was an offset lithograph, Blue Still Life, commissioned by the Department of the Environment and printed by the Curwen Studio. It was the only unlimited print made by Scott.
1976
JANUARY
William Scott, opened at the Gallery Kasahara, Osaka, on 16 January (closed 7 February). The exhibition consisted of six oils, sixteen gouaches and two prints.
Ryunosuke Kasahara, a young art dealer, was an enthusiastic promoter of contemporary western art. The catalogue introduction, ‘Between Realism and Abstraction’, was written by Chuji Ikegami, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Letters at Kobe University. Kasahara had come across Scott’s work through a visit to Gimpel Fils, and had arranged an introduction to the artist through Kenneth Armitage, whose work Kasahara had recently shown.
MAY
The Scotts travelled to Tokyo for the opening of a second exhibition organised by the Gallery Kasahara on 17 May (closed 29 May). The exhibition, which was held in rented premises as Kasahara did not have a gallery in Tokyo, was a larger version of the show held in Osaka in January, and included 11 oils from 1950 to 1976 and 25 gouaches mostly painted in 1975 and 1976.
Exhibitions
Gallery Kasahara, Osaka, Japan, William Scott, 16 January - 7 February 1976, no. 11 (gouache) and Tokyo, 17 - 29 May 1976, no. 8 (gouache), ills. b&w in both catalogues.Coram Gallery, Works on paper, 6 June 1995Literature
Mizue 3, March 1976, No. 852, [published in Tokyo], article; Austerity and Humour: William Scott's Painting, by Haruhiko Fujii [to be translated], illus. b&w pg. 109 Volume 27 of New History of World Art No. 143, Shogakukan Inc Tokyo, Japan November 1996, no. 143 illus. b&w
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