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Fish, Mushrooms, Knife and Lemons

© estate of William Scott 2024. Image credit: Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives

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The content of still lifes has hardly changed over hundreds of years and Scott liked this, and the way that each generation in turn 'expressed its own period and feelings and time within this terribly narrow range'. He painted them from memory and not with the objects in front of him. Here he simplified everything, concentrating on the abstract qualities of colour and shape in his chosen objects, but using juicy, sensuous paint strokes. His work was later to become purely abstract.

Bristol Museum & Art Gallery

Bristol

Title

Fish, Mushrooms, Knife and Lemons

Date

1949 or 1950

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 50.7 x W 61.2 cm

Accession number

K2214

Acquisition method

gift from the Friends of Bristol Art Gallery, 1951

Work type

Painting

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