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Head with headdress, SSW - A/8 signed 'Scottie' (lower right) pen, ink and watercolour 37 x 27cm

Footnote: Provenance With The London Gallery, where acquired by Gigi Richter in 1946 Exhibited London, Barcelona Restaurant, in association with The London Gallery, Exhibition of Drawings by Scottie Wilson , 1946 Having been forced to leave education in order to help supplement his family's income at the age of eight and spending most of his adult life serving in the army, Scottie Wilson did not begin his artistic career until the age 44. Entirely self-taught and widely regarded to be at the vanguard of 20 th century outsider art, Wilson developed an unmistakeable aesthetic characterised by highly detailed renderings of totemic figures.

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