Sean Scully

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Acrylic on canvas
40 x 60” (101.6 x 152.4 cm)
SSp70 03
INV: Mooseurach Studio, Königsdorf, Germany (Oct. 2012)

Private Collection: Sean Scully, Mooseurach, Königsdorf, Germany + INV: Mooseurach Studio, Königsdorf, Germany Jan. 2012)

Exhibitions

"Sean Scully. Figure/Abstract," Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland. June 27 – September 12, 2015. Curated by Marc O’Sullivan and Tina Darb., 2015

"Sean Scully. Figure/Abstract," Kunsthalle Rostock, Rostock, Germany. March 1 – April 12, 2015., 2015

"Sean Scully. Figure/Abstract," Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany. August 31 – November 16, 2014., 2014

"Sean Scully," Lempertz, Brussels, Belgium. April 7 – April 24, 2017., 2017

"Sean Scully: 1970," Laing Art Gallery and Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. February 10 – May 28, 2018., 2018

"Sean Scully: 1970," Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK. July 14 – October 14, 2018., 2018

"Sean Scully: Long Light," Villa Panza, Fondo Ambiente Italiano (FAI), Varese, Italy. April 19 – January 6, 2020. Curated by Anna Bernardini., 2019

"Sean Scully: Passenger – A Retrospective," Museum of Fine Arts – Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest, Hungary. October 13 – May 2, 2021. Curated by Dávid Fehér., 2020

"Sean Scully: Passenger – A Retrospective," Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece. December 16, 2021 – February 13, 2022. Curated by Constantinos Papachristou., 2021

"Sean Scully: A Wound in a Dance with Love," MAMbo - Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna. June 22 – October 9, 2022. Curated by Lorenzo Balbi., 2022

"Sean Scully: Passenger – A Retrospective," The Museum of Contemporary Art – Zagreb (MSU), Zagreb, Croatia. November 16, 2022 – March 12, 2023. (c) Curated by Dávid Fehér., 2022

"Sean Scully. Géographies," Passerelle Centre d'art contemporain, Brest, France. October 20, 2023 – January 12, 2024., 2023

Literature

Poirier, 18, plate 5 Exhibition catalogue: “Sean Scully. The Architektur der Farbe / The Architecture of Color.” Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, 10 March - 21 May 2006, colorplate 2, pg. 70 Monograph: Carrier, David. “Sean Scully”, Thames and Hudson Ltd, London, 2004, pg. 55, 57 (colorplate), 67 Exhibition catalogue: “1970 Northern Young Contemporaries”, Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester, Manchester, England, Nov 14 - Dec 19, 1970, p 5, 10 (BW reproduction) 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) Pages 50-51 (colorplate) Monograph: “Sean Scully. Resistance and Persistence: Selected Writings” Merrell Publishers, London, 2006. Texts by Sean Scully, Florence Ingleby, ed. English. Page 17.