About this artwork
This painting is typical of the sparse, kitchen-based still-life paintings Scott produced from the mid-1940s. The artist has said that he grew up in an austere, grey world, and this experience influenced his choice of subject matter and the colours of his paintings. In this small painting the lemons offer a splash of colour, set against a plain, white plate. Scott chose to paint the objects he was familiar with, and he stated that the work of Cézanne was a particularly strong influence on his still-life paintings.
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title:Still Life - Lemons on a Plate, 1948
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date created:1948
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materials:Oil on canvas
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measurements:50.70 x 61.00 cm
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credit line:Purchased 1978
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accession number:GMA 2066
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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...
