SEAN SCULLY | Linosa

Collection of Peggy Moorman and Harvey Quaytman, New York (gift of the artist)
David McKee Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Princeton University Art Museum, A Decade of Visual Arts at Princeton: Faculty, 1975-1985, November 1985 - January 1986, p. 105, illustrated

Marla Price, Sean Scully: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Volume II, 1980-1989, Berlin 2018, p. 163, illustrated in color

This work is in very good condition overall. The colors are bright, fresh and clean. There is minor evidence of wear and handling to the edges. Under very close inspection, faint and scattered drying cracks are visible in the vertical teal stripes, inherent to the artist's working method. Under Ultraviolet light inspection, there are no signs of restoration. Unframed.
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"You can do certain things with painting that are unique to painting that you cannot do with anything else. With a painting you can contain within borders a lot of experience, narrative, emotion, poetry, idea, thought, time, references and so on, all within a frame...Painting has a unique potential to stop time and compact feelings and experience."
Sean Scully