* WILLIAM SCOTT (SCOTTISH/IRISH 1912 - 1989), ODEON SUITE IV lithograph in colours on watermarked BFK Rives wove paper,. Signed W. Scott in pencil, dated 1966 and numbered 12 from the limited edition of 75. Image size approx 50.2cm x 63.8cm Mounted, framed and under glass. Label verso: Taylor Galleries, Six Dawson Street, Dublin. Note: Printed by Mathieu, Zurich and published by Editions Alecto, London. Referenced in Brian Balfour-Oatts, William Scott: A Survey of his Original Prints, Archeus Fine Art, London, 2005, no 22. William Scott produced The Odeon Suite, a series of six lithographs, in 1966. The series was named after the Odeon Café in Zurich, the artist travelling back and forth from London to Zurich while proofing the prints. Born in Greenock, Scotland, William Scott went to Belfast College of Art in 1928 and won a scholarship to the Royal Academy Schools in London in 1931. His first one-man show at the Hanover Gallery in London opened in June 1953 and included a number of, loosely, abstract paintings. That same year, an extended visit to North America resulted in friendships with New York based artists including Rothko and de Kooning. He was one of the first British artists to be aware of Abstract Expressionism. Throughout his prints the themes of still-life, landscape and the female nude recur, often exploring the space between abstraction and figuration.