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William Scott RA (1913-1989)
Robert (1947)
Oil on canvas, 40.5 x 35.5cm (16 x 14”)
Signed
Provenance: From the Collection of George and Maura McClelland and on loan from them to
IMMA from 1999 - 2004; Private Collection, Dublin
Exhibited:
Recent Paintings by William Scott
, Leicester Galleries, 1948 Cat. No. 1 under
title
Head of a Boy
;
The McClelland Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art
, Sept 2000-Jan 2001;
Envisage - The Fall of Contemporary Irish Art
, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Oct
2001-April 2002;
Northern Artists from the McClelland Collection
, IMMA 2004/5, Droichand Arts
Centre 2005
William Scott in Ireland
, F.E. McWilliam Gallery Banbridge, Mar-Sept 2009,
Cat. No.5 (see contemporary photograph of Robert Scott standing in front of
this picture at that exhibition)
Literature:
The Hunter Gatherer
, Irish Museum of Modern Art 2005, illustrated Fig.106
p.106
William Scott in Ireland
Dr. Denise Ferran, 2009, illustrated p16;
William Scott Catalogue Raisonné of Oil Paintings
Vol. 1913-51 by Sarah Whit
field Cat. No.115, illustrated p175
This is one of six known portraits of William and Mary Scott’s first child Robert who was
born in Dublin 5th January 1940, the Scotts having moved here in September the previous
year. Robert was sent to live with his aunt in the United States and then Canada before
returning to live in England with his parents in January 1944
€50,000 - 80,000
Robert Scott 2009
