Sean Scully (b. 1945)
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Sean Scully (b. 1945)

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Details
Sean Scully (b. 1945)
Enter Black
titled and dated 'ENTER BLACK 1998' (on the reverse)
oil on linen
96 x 84in (244 x 213.5cm.)
Painted in 1998
Provenance
Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zurich.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in September 1998.
Literature
Sean Scully, Gemälde, Pastelle, Aquarelle, Fotografien 1990-2000, exh. cat., Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, 2001, p. 222, no. 1.
Exhibited
Vienna, BAWAG Foundation, Sean Scully, 1998 (illustrated in colour, p. 17)
Klosterneuburg, Sammlung Essl - Kunst der Gegenwart, Sammlung Essl - the first view, 1999-2000, p. 393 (illustrated in colour, p. 247).
Klosterneuburg, Sammlung Essl - Kunst der Gegenwart, Augenblick, Foto\Kunst, 2002, p. 164 (illustrated in colour, p. 111).
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

‘There are no simple colours in my work… there are no whites, no reds. Colours are always subverted by the colours underneath, so when you’re looking at something you’re never quite sure what you’re looking at’ (S. Scully, quoted in H. Amirsadeghi and M. Homayoun Eisler (eds.), Sanctuary: Britain’s Artists and their Studios, London 2011, p. 112).

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