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William Scott

Pears, 1979

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About the artwork

Throughout his career, Scott professed a preference for the primitive. He saw ‘beauty in plainness’ and avoided adopting a showy handling of paint in favour of a simpler, more course technique. Pears feature regularly in his work in the 1970s and this work combines a sense of sensuousness with his characteristic austerity.

Abstract Art

Artist William Scott
Artwork Pears
Date of work 1979
Credit Original: Lithograph on Paper 49.8 x 65.1 cm © Estate of William Scott 2020

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Born 1913 to Scottish-Irish parents, William Scott (1913–1989) was an internationally celebrated 20th century painter from Ulster, Northern Ireland. Scott is best known for his abstract and still-life paintings of simple kitchen objects, and also painted landscapes and nudes. He studied at the Belfast School of Art, and later at the Royal Academy Schools in London. He married fellow artist Mary Lucas, and they founded an art school in Port Aven, France. While serving in the army he made a number of watercolours of soldiers and the landscape, but when the war ended he returned to painting still lifes in earnest.

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