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Patrick Scott HRHA (1921-2014)
Estimate:
€10,000 - €15,000
Sold
€9,500
Live Auction
Important Irish Art
Size
48 by 60in. (121.9 by 152.4cm)
Description
Title: MAGNETIC FIELD, 1960
Frame dimensions: 48.75 by 60.75in. (123.8 by 154.3cm)
Note: In many ways 1960 was a seminal year for Scott. He was involved in two major international art events, representing Ireland at the Venice Biennale with a group of eighteen works, and participating along with four other Irish artists (Nano Reid, Louis le Brocquy, Dan O'Neill and Richard Kingston) in the invitation-only Guggenheim International Award in New York, where he won the National Award. Dr Yvonne Scott has identified the artist's duel concerns at this time: registering both the terrestrial environment (as evidenced in the series of bog paintings which he had just begun), and the extra-terrestrial environment, 'reflecting the increasing general interest in rocket-age science from the late 1950s'. (1) These works with their 'stellar explosions' of white paint - split, dripped and sprayed - anticipate the Device series of 1962-64 which were in turn painted in reaction to the testing of H-Bombs (devices) at this time. (2)Footnotes:1. Yvonne Scott, Patrick Scott: A Retrospective, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, 2002, p. 42.2. Op. cit., p. 43
Frame dimensions: 48.75 by 60.75in. (123.8 by 154.3cm)
Note: In many ways 1960 was a seminal year for Scott. He was involved in two major international art events, representing Ireland at the Venice Biennale with a group of eighteen works, and participating along with four other Irish artists (Nano Reid, Louis le Brocquy, Dan O'Neill and Richard Kingston) in the invitation-only Guggenheim International Award in New York, where he won the National Award. Dr Yvonne Scott has identified the artist's duel concerns at this time: registering both the terrestrial environment (as evidenced in the series of bog paintings which he had just begun), and the extra-terrestrial environment, 'reflecting the increasing general interest in rocket-age science from the late 1950s'. (1) These works with their 'stellar explosions' of white paint - split, dripped and sprayed - anticipate the Device series of 1962-64 which were in turn painted in reaction to the testing of H-Bombs (devices) at this time. (2)Footnotes:1. Yvonne Scott, Patrick Scott: A Retrospective, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, 2002, p. 42.2. Op. cit., p. 43
Condition
Some surface dirt visible. Board appears stable and no sign of cracking or paint loss. Very good condition.
Medium
tempera on board
Signature
signed, titled and dated on reverse
Provenance
Whyte's, 17 September 2002, lot 84;Private collection
Exhibited
IELA, 1960, catalogue no. 84;'Patrick Scott: An Exhibition of Recent Paintings', Dawson Gallery, Dublin, February to March 1961, catalogue no. 15
