Georges Scott, France, 1909, Drawing In Black Stone, White Chalk, Watercolor And Gouache

Georges SCOTT
(Paris 1873-1943)
France 1909
black chalk, white chalk, watercolor and gouache on paper
38 x 28 cm; 46 x 56 cm (framed)
signed 'Georges Scott' and dated '1909' lower right

Selected bibliography:
Bénézit, Paris, Ernest Gründ Publisher
Georges Scott, painter of the Great War, cat. exp., Coe͏̈tquidan, Musée du souvenir des Ecoles de Saint-Cyr, 1994

Notable museums:
Musée des beaux-arts, Reims Musée du Temps, Besançon Musée de l’Armée, Paris

Find out more:
Georges Scott trained with Édouard Detaille, before becoming a war painter during the First World War. He exhibited regularly in Paris at the Salon of French Artists, of which he was a member from 1897. In 1912, he was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor, then promoted to Officer in 1928. As an official painter of the Army, he collaborated assiduously with the magazine L'Illustration during the Great War. Recognized as one of the best illustrators of military subjects of the early 20th century, Georges Scott also demonstrated a remarkable talent for portraits. In these works, he strives to bring out the presence and elegance of his subjects (see Georges Scott, painter of the Great War, exp. cat., Coëtquidan, Musée du Souvenir des Écoles de Saint-Cyr, 1994, p.8). The personification of France in his work is no exception to this quest for elegance and detail.