About this artwork
In this still life, objects have been reduced to their basic outlines. The frying pan is seen from above and the round bottomed bowls are seen from the side. The painting is from a period when Scott had begun to reintroduce figurative references into his paintings after a period of painting abstracts. However the objects are reduced to flat shapes without a physical presence, almost hovering above the picture plane. The painting is also an exploration of colour and tone. Scott described it as a ‘work of twentieth-century tonalist painting.’
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title:Grey Still Life
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date created:1969
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materials:Oil on canvas
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measurements:168.00 x 172.00 cm; Framed: 169.80 x 175.00 x 3.50 cm
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credit line:Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh: purchased 1972.
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accession number:GMA 1262
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artwork photographed by:Antonia Reeve
William Scott
William Scott
William Scott was born in Greenock and grew up in Northern Ireland. He studied at Belfast College of Art and at the Royal College of Art, London, from 1931 to 1935. Scott lived in France from 1937 to 1939, teaching art in Brittany. He later became a senior painting lecturer at Bath Academy of Art...