SEAN SCULLY | Red

This work is in excellent condition overall. The surface texture and pigment irregularities are consistent with the artist's choice of medium and working method. Only visible under very close inspection and raking light, there are a few, scattered, unobtrusive pinpoint surface accretions, likely from the time of execution and some light surface dust accumulation. Unframed.
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“Sean Scully re-imagines the history of abstraction as an art rooted in experience, one that seeks to purify how we encounter the world—“something felt and something seen,” as he has said. To this end, his work stages an intense dialogue between colour and form, but colour that is always rooted in a particular place, and form that manifests the self.” (Joanna Kleinberg and Brett Littman, Ed., Sean Scully: Change and Horizontals, New York 2013, p.29)