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86 Sean Scully (b.1945) 9.13.02 (2002)signed & titled lower right
watercolour on paper
35.60 x 43.20cm (14 x 17in)
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Adler & Co. Gallery, San Francisco (label verso);
Taylor Gallery, Belfast;
Solomon Fine Art, Dublin (label verso);
Private Collection
€15,000-25,000 (£13,043-21,739)
Scully was born in Dublin in 1945 and raised in South London. He studied at Croydon College of Art and Newcastle
University. He was a recipient of a graduate fellowship at Harvard in the early 1970s and subsequently settled in New York.
His work is represented in the permanent collections of many major museums and public galleries around the world and
for many years Scully’s works have achieved some of the highest prices paid for a living artist and he is undoubtedly the
most successful Irish born living artist. Scully’s paintings are often made up of a number of panels and are abstract. His
paintings typically involve architectural constructions of abutting walls and panels of painted stripes. In recent years he has
augmented his trademark stripes by also deploying a mode of compositional patterning more reminiscent of a checkerboard.
He has stated that this style represents the way in which Ireland has moved towards a more chequered society and he relates
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