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  • Africa

    Oil on linen
    40 x 60” (101.6 x 152.4 cm)
    SSp89 07
    Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia
    Public Collection: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain

  • Exhibitions

    “Sean Scully: Twenty Years, 1976-1995”, 1995-1996, traveling exhibition (c): Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 14 June - 10 Sept 1995; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA 10 Oct 1995 - 7 Jan 1996; Fundacio “la Caixa,” Centre Cultural, Barcelona, Spain 5 Feb - 7 Apr 1996, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland, 23 May - 24 Aug 1996; Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 19 Sept - 24 Nov 1996, 1996

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    Sean Scully: Kunstmuseum Bern. Grey Wolf. 9th march - 24th june 2012. A Retrospective. Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria, July 20th – October 14, 2012., 2012

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    "Sean Scully: Twenty Years, 1976-1995," Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. June 14 – September 10, 1995; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA. October 10, 1995 – January 7, 1996; Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Dublin, Ireland. May 23 – August 24, 1996; Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. September 19 – November 24, 1996., 1995

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    “tigers in the garden”, curated by Enrique Juncosa, The Jose Guerrero Centre, Granada, Spain, May 6 - July 4, 2004 (c), 2004

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  • Literature

    Exhibition Cat. Sean Scully. Fundacio Joan Miro: July 28th - Sept 30, 2007.Thames and Hudson, 2007.pg. 58 Poirier, plate 135 Book (limited edition): “Sean Scully”, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, 2005, (color illus. 8) Monograph: Carrier, David. “Sean Scully”, Thames and Hudson Ltd, London, 2004, pg. 112, 112 (colorplate), 128 Exhibition catalogue: Juncosa, Enrique. “tigers in the garden”, The Jose Guerrero Centre, Granada, Spain, May 6 - July 4, 2004, p. 54, 55 (colorplate) Periodical interview: Jocks, Heinz-Norbert. “Sean Scully: Kunst setzt voraus, dass man nackt ist und dadurch offener wird”, Kunstforum International, July - Sept 1998, p. 275 (colorplate) Exhibition catalogue: “nuevas abstracciones”, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, 1996, p. 26 (colorplate) Exhibition Catalogue: “Sean Scully”, curated by Danilo Eccher, Galleria d’Arte Moderna - Villa Delle Rose, Bologna, Italy, May 31 - September 1, 1996, pg. 65 (colorplate) Exhibition Catalogue: ‘Sean Scully. Retrospektive/Retrospective. Grey Wolf. Kunstmuseum Bern and Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz: Texts by Matthias Frehner ‘Grey wolf or the Spiritual in the Art of Sean Scully’. Annick Haldemann ‘Concrete Abstractions’, Brigitte Reutner ‘On the Development and Effect of Light in the work of Sean Scully’. (ENG-GER) Page 84-85 (colorplate) Sean Scully: Works from the 1980’s exhibition catalogue published by Czernin Verlag-Vienna, Austria, 2010, VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art & the George Bernard Shaw Theatre, Carlow, Ireland, Feb 5-Apr 1, 2010 and Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds,England, May 27-Aug. 8, 2010. Edited by Tanja Pirsig-Marshall, Leeds with essays by Tanja Pirsig-Marshall ‘I just try to make them be as much as they can be’ Works from the 1908’s, Arthur C. Danto ‘Sean Scully and the Art of Painting’ and Armin Zweite ‘To humanize abstract painting’ Reflections on Sean Scully’s “Stone Light.” Page 89 (colorplate 60) Monograph: “Sean Scully” Elche, San Vicente, Spain, 2007. Texts by Pilar Escanero de Miguel. Spanish. Page 44. Monograph: “Sean Scully”, Editions Cercle d’Art, Paris, France, 2006. Edited by Philippe Monsel. French. Colorplate 15. Exhibition Catalogue: “Sean Scully”. Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, 2005. Text by Sean Scully (lecture from Institut Valencia d’Art Modern, May 4 2004). English. Colorplate 8. Exhibition Catalogue: “Sean Scully. Twenty Years, 1976-1995” High Museum of Art / Thames and Hudson, Atlanta, 1995. Texts by Ned Rifkin, Victoria Combalia, Lynne Cooke and Armin Zweite. Colorplate 38. Exhibition Catalogue: “Sean Scully. Gemalde Pastelle Aquarelle Fotografien 1990-2000” Kunstsammlunch Nordhein-Westfalen / Richter Verlag, Dussledorf, Germany, 2001. Texts by Armin Zweite, Bernd Kluser, Francisco Jarauta, Hans-Michael Herzog (interview), Maria Muller. Page 106-107. Colorplate 2.