Patrick Scott
€195.00
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PATRICK SCOTT, who died in 2014, was one of Ireland’s leading visual artists. This stunning, large-format hardback book reproduces hundreds of his artworks, many featuring the gold leaf for which he is best known, along with numerous examples of his furniture, sculpture and tapestries.
Scott produced many exquisitely simple abstracts in gold and white on unprimed canvas; these paintings have a zen-like meditative quality which has attracted international acclaim. In contrast to these quiet paintings are his tapestries, many of which are richly coloured. In a long essay, Aidan Dunne, art critic with the Irish Times, charts the development of Scott’s work, and sets it in its international context.
This remarkable book is a unique collector’s item featuring the work of one of the High Kings of Irish Art. One thousand copies were printed, of which only a small number remain available.
Patrick Scott
Patrick Scott was born in 1921 in Kilbrittain, County Cork, and moved to Dublin to study architecture in UCD. In 1960, he left architecture to pursue his art full-time. His paintings are in several important collections including the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He won the Guggenheim Award in 1960, represented Ireland in the Venice Biennale, the Douglas Hyde Gallery held a major retrospective of his work in 1981 and the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin held a major survey in 2002. Scott was a founding member of Aosdána, and in July 2007 was conferred with the title of Saoi by President Mary McAleese. He died on St Valentine’s Day, 2014.