Details
Sean Scully (b. 1945)
One Yellow
oil on canvas
72 x 112in. (183 x 284.5cm.)
Painted in 1985
One Yellow
oil on canvas
72 x 112in. (183 x 284.5cm.)
Painted in 1985
Provenance
David McKee Gallery, New York.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's New York, 8 May 1990.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's New York, 8 May 1990.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
Sean Scully, Paintings and Works on Paper, exh. cat., Zurich, Galerie Jamileh Weber, 1991 (illustrated in colour).
Exhibited
Bologna, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Sean Scully, May-September 1996 (illustrated in colour, p. 36).
St Gallen, Historical and Ethnological Museum, Persian Textiles as seen by Modernism, January 2004-April 2005.
Duisburg, Museum Küppersmühle, Constantinople, or, The Sensual Concealed: the Imagery of Sean Scully, February-May 2009 (illustrated in colour, p. 11). This exhibition later travelled to Belfast, Ulster Museum, October 2009-February 2010.
St Gallen, Historical and Ethnological Museum, Persian Textiles as seen by Modernism, January 2004-April 2005.
Duisburg, Museum Küppersmühle, Constantinople, or, The Sensual Concealed: the Imagery of Sean Scully, February-May 2009 (illustrated in colour, p. 11). This exhibition later travelled to Belfast, Ulster Museum, October 2009-February 2010.
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