Sean Scully

Pale Fire

Oil on linen
40 x 60” (101.6 x 152.4 cm)
SSp88 09
Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth
Public Collection: Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth, Fort Worth, TX

Exhibitions

Palacio de Velazquez del Retiro, Madrid, Spain, Sept 14-Nov 12, 1989, 1989

Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany, July 12 - Aug 27, 1989, 1989

“Contemporary Art: The Janet Wolfson de Botton Gift”, Tate Gallery, London, England, Feb 24 - Apr 26, 1988 (c), 1988

Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England, May 5 - June 25, 1989, 1989

David McKee Gallery, NYC, 2/89 (c), 1989

110 Years: The Permanent Collection of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, 2002

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

"Sean Scully: Paintings and Works on Paper 1982-1988," Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK. May 5 – June 25, 1989; Centro de Arte Reina Sofia – Palacio de Velazquez, Parque del Retiro, Madrid, Spain. September 14 – November 12, 1989; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany. July 12 – August 27, 1989., 1989

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

"Sean Scully: The Shape of Ideas," Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas, USA. June 20 – October 10, 2021., 2021

Sean Scully: Paintings and Works on Paper 1982-1988 traveling exhibition (c), 0

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

“110 Years: The Permanent Collection of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth”, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX, Dec 2002 - Mar 2003 (c), 2002

Literature

Book: 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 80-81 (colorplate) Poirier, 161, plate 127 Monograph: Carrier, David. “Sean Scully”, Thames and Hudson Ltd, London, 2004, pg. 107, 119, 122-123 (colorplate)ort Worth, TX, Dec 2002 - Mar 2003, p. 158, 161 (colorplate), 291 (BW reproduction) Catalogue: Smith, Alistair. “Sean Scully”, Irish Arts Review, Yearbook 1994, p. 88 Book: Hughes, Robert. “The Shock of the New”, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, 1991, p. 395 (colorplate 254) Periodical article: Carrier, David, “Piet Mondrian and Sean Scully. Two Political Artists”, Art Journal, 1991, pg 68, 69 (illus.) Periodical article: Bevan, Roger. “Abstract”, Antique and New Art, Winter 1990, p. 139 Periodical review: Batchelor, David. “Sean Scully Whitechapel Gallery”, artscribe, Sept/Oct 1989, p. 72 (BW reproduction) Exhibition brochure: “Sean Scully: Paintings and Works on Paper 1982-1988” Palacio de Velazquez, Parque del Retiro, Madrid, Spain, Sept 14 - Nov 12, 1989 (color illus.) Periodical review: Carrier, David. “Spatial Relations. Sean Scully”, ArtInternational, Autumn 1989, p. 81 Periodical article: Cooke, Lynne. “Sean Scully”, Galeries Magazine, Aug/Sept 1989, p. 62, 63 (colorplate) Periodical review: Feaver, William. “Sean Scully Whitechapel Art Gallery”, ARTnews, Sept 1989, p. 191 Exhibition Catalogue: “Sean Scully, Paintings & Works on Paper 1982-88”, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England, 1989, colorplate Periodical article: Hughes, Robert. “Earning His Stripes,” Time Magazine, August 14, 1989, p. 70 (color reproduction) Monograph: “Sean Scully. Resistance and Persistence: Selected Writings” Merrell Publishers, London, 2006. Texts by Sean Scully, Florence Ingleby, ed. English. Page 59. Book-Sean Scully: Prints from the Garner Tullis Workshop. Published by Garner Tullis, New York, 1991. Essay by David Carrier. (BW illus.)