William Scott

British · 1913–1989 · Painter, Draughtsman

William Scott was a prominent abstract painter from Northern Ireland, known for his themes of still life, landscape and female nudes. He is the most internationally celebrated… (Wikipedia)

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293lots offered1994–2026years recorded84%sold (244)$3.9kSign up free to seemedian price

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BLUE STILL LIFEWhyte's · May 2017€450,000≈ $503,460≈ £391,920Sign up to see
Still Life With Frying PandeVeres · Dec 2020€200,000≈ $242,280≈ £182,289Sign up to see
Still Life on White with BeansMorgan O'Driscoll · Apr 2026€150,000≈ $176,505≈ £130,551Sign up to see

William Scott’s highest prices recorded at auction, ranked in US dollars at each sale-date exchange rate and shown in the currency of the sale (with the buyer’s premium where the house publishes it).

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Average price

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median $3.9kfree account

High

$503kSign up free to see

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Lots sold

244

of 291 offered · 1994–2026

Sell-through

84%

sold ÷ offered

Price trend

Each dot is a sold lot (price realized incl. premium where published, converted to USD at the sale-date rate; log scale). Dashed line: yearly median.

5 lot(s) catalogued with a qualifier (e.g. “attributed to”, “after”, “circle of”) are listed in the results but excluded from these statistics.

2 lot(s) offered at auction whose result the house did not publish are listed under “Also offered” on the results tab and excluded from these statistics.

1 sold lot(s) are awaiting a USD exchange rate and are excluded from averages.

By medium

Medium	Offered	Sold	Sell-through	Average	Median	High
Paintings	16	15	94%	$130kSign up	$101kSign up	$503kSign up
Oil	14	14	100%	$139kSign up	$114kSign up	$503kSign up
Acrylic	1	0	0%	—Sign up	—Sign up	—
Mixed media	1	1	100%	$4.6kSign up	$4.6kSign up	$4.6kSign up
Works on paper	59	46	78%	$16.4kSign up	$11.4kSign up	$106kSign up
Watercolor	14	12	86%	$13kSign up	$12.5kSign up	$33.3kSign up
Gouache	18	16	89%	$30kSign up	$21kSign up	$106kSign up
Pastel	5	5	100%	$9.6kSign up	$11.3kSign up	$12.4kSign up
Drawing	21	13	62%	$5.4kSign up	$2.9kSign up	$16.4kSign up
Prints & multiples	197	166	84%	$3.8kSign up	$3.1kSign up	$14.3kSign up
Lithograph	102	89	87%	$3.8kSign up	$3.3kSign up	$11.7kSign up
Screenprint	80	63	79%	$4.1kSign up	$2.8kSign up	$14.3kSign up
Print (other)	1	1	100%	$2.3kSign up	$2.3kSign up	$2.3kSign up
Multiple	14	13	93%	$2.9kSign up	$3.1kSign up	$4.2kSign up
Other	19	17	89%	$14.5kSign up	$2.7kSign up	$149kSign up

Medium classes are derived from the medium text as published by each house; “Other” includes lots whose medium wasn’t stated.

By year

Year	Offered	Sold	Median
2026	11	11	$3.1kSign up
2025	28	24	$2.6kSign up
2024	16	15	$5.7kSign up
2023	25	24	$3.4kSign up
2022	25	20	$4.1kSign up
2021	23	19	$2.6kSign up
2020	21	19	$7.6kSign up
2019	9	5	$1.9kSign up
2018	21	18	$2.5kSign up
2017	16	12	$5.6kSign up
2016	2	1	$2kSign up
2015	7	7	$2.4kSign up
2014	4	4	$8.1kSign up
2013	2	2	$2.4kSign up
2012	6	5	$1.5kSign up
2011	5	2	$2.1kSign up
2010	3	3	$3.3kSign up
2009	4	3	$1.5kSign up
2008	7	5	$5.3kSign up
2007	27	23	$4.6kSign up
2006	8	7	$7.6kSign up
2005	6	5	$6.4kSign up
2004	4	2	$10.6kSign up
2003	5	5	$1.6kSign up
2002	4	2	$8.1kSign up
2000	1	0	—Sign up
1994	1	1	—Sign up