
Penny Day
Head of UK and Ireland
Sold for £53,750 inc. premium
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Provenance
The Artist, from whom acquired by
Bernard Hailstone, thence by family descent to the present owner
Private Collection, U.K.
Exhibited
London, Osborne Samuel, Twentieth Century British Art, 16 June-9 July 2011 (col.ill.)
Literature
Norbert Lynton, William Scott, Thames & Hudson, London, 2004, pp.27-8, pl.52 (col.ill., as Farm Boy at Chiddock)
Sarah Whitfield (ed.), William Scott, Catalogue Raisonné of Oil Paintings, Thames & Hudson, London, 2013, 1913-1951, p.69, cat.no.20 (col.ill.)
When considering the present work it is impossible not to recall the portraits of Amadeo Modigliani. The elongated head, oval eyes and carefully delineated facial features all bring to mind the formidable Post-Impressionist painter.
It is known that Scott was in possession of a sale catalogue dating to 10 June 1937 from the Hotel Drouot in which several paintings by Modigliani were illustrated, including one of a young man wearing a hat titled Le Poete, which almost certainly acted as the creative springboard for this lot.