Untitled (8.17.93)

Details

SEAN SCULLY (B. 1945)
Untitled (8.17.93)
signed and dated 'Sean Scully 8.17.93' (lower left)
pastel on paper
40 ½ x 59 ¾in. (103 x 152cm.)
Executed in 1993

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner.

Exhibited

Madrid, Sala Alcalá 31, Sean Scully, para García Lorca, 2005, p. 128, no. 22 (illustrated in colour, p. 79).

Special Notice

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Lot Essay

‘I’m very interested in the way something can be manifested differently according to its physical nature, according to the technique with which it’s rendered. I think that has a profound effect on the image, and what the image means. The pastels, those big pastels that I make, are very monumental’
(S. Scully, quoted in N. Rifkin, ‘Interview with Sean Scully’, in Sean Scully: Twenty years 1976-1995, exh. cat., High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 1995, p. 79).

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