Lot 576
  • 576

Sean Scully

Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 USD
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Description

  • Sean Scully
  • Untitled
  • signed, titled and dated 7.6.91
  • pastel on paper
  • 40 1/8 by 59 1/4 in. 102 by 150.5 cm.

Provenance

Private Collection, London
Sotheby's, London, May 9, 2007, lot 143
Private Collection
Phillips de Pury & Co., London, February 12, 2009, lot 31
Acquired by the present owner from the above sale

Exhibited

London, Pyms Gallery, Summer Show: Modern and Contemporary Paintings, July 2005

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. The sheet is mounted verso to the backing board intermittently along the edges. The horizontal edges are deckled. There are artist's pinholes in all four corners. Framed under glass.
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Catalogue Note

“The power of abstract painting today lies in a constant exchange and perpetual transformation of a physical state into a visual, emotional, and mental state, and back again. It is closely aligned to the human situation.”
Sean Scully