Lot 144
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Sean Scully (B. 1945)
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Sean Scully (B. 1945)

Barcelona Pink Wall of Light

Details
Sean Scully (B. 1945)
Barcelona Pink Wall of Light
signed, titled and dated 'BARCELONA PINK WALL OF LIGHT Sean Scully 04' (on the reverse)
oil on linen
35 x 45in. (89 x 114.2cm.)
Painted in 2004
Provenance
Galeria Carles Taché, Barcelona.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Exhibited
Madrid, Consejería de Cultura y Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid, Sean Scully para García Lorca, 2005, no. 4 (illustrated in colour, p. 78).
Special Notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

‘It is without doubt the Mediterranean light which fascinates Scully and cast a spell on him. [...] The relaxed, luminous, and soft aspects of the Wall of light pictures [...] allow us to sense something of the atmosphere of Barcelona’

(A. Zweite, ‘Abstraction and Authentic Experience: Double strategies in the OEuvre of Sean Scully’, in A. Zweite et al., Sean Scully. Paintings, pastels, watercolors, photographs 1990-2000, Düsseldorf 2001, p. 68).

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