Small Chelsea Wall of Light #6

Details

SEAN SCULLY (B. 1945)
Small Chelsea Wall of Light #6
signed, titled and dated 'SMALL CHELSEA WALL OF LIGHT #6 Sean Scully 2000' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas mounted on panel
18 x 24 in. (45.7 x 61 cm.)
Painted in 2000.

Provenance

Knoedler & Company, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2001

Literature

D. Carrier, "Marden Scully," The Burlington Magazine, CXLIX, February 2007, p. 132.

Exhibited

New York, Knoedler & Company, Sean Scully: Light and Gravity, March-April 2001, no. 9 (illustrated).
Washington D.C., The Phillips Collection; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; Cincinnati Art Museum and New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sean Scully: Wall of Light, October 2005-January 2007, p. 33 (illustrated).

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Please note the correct medium for this work is oil on canvas mounted on panel.

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Lot Essay

The title Wall of Light, evocative in so many ways, is weighted with contradiction. A wall has density; it separates and divides. It contains space and closes off light. Light, on the other hand, is ethereal; it opens and spreads. It radiates and fills space. These polarities are an intrinsic part of the process and content of Scully's recent paintings, in which he uses these apparent contradictions to create emotional content.
– Michael Auping (S. Phillips, ed., Sean Scully: Wall of Light, exh. cat., The Phillips Collection, p. 25)

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