Wall of Light Blue Blue

Details

Sean Scully (b. 1945)
Wall of Light Blue Blue
signed, titled and dated ‘WALL OF LIGHT BLUE BLUE I. 2009 Sean Scully’ (on the reverse)
oil on canvas mounted on panel
63 x 63in. (160 x 160cm.)
Painted in 2009

Provenance

Galerie Lelong, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2009.

Exhibited

New York, Galerie Lelong, Sean Scully: Recent Paintings, 2009, p. 48 (illustrated in colour, p. 37).

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Lot Essay

‘Scully was inspired by Rothko’s atmospheric use of layered colour, the way the separations between his blocks of colour revealed the layer underneath. Scully injected Piet Mondrian’s strict grid like architecture into Rothko, animating his quiet mediations and giving early body and weight to his vaporous clouds of colour’ (S.B. Phillips, ‘Becoming Sean Scully,’ S.B. Phillips (ed.), Wall of Light, exh. cat., Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., 2005, p. 19).

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