Sean Scully Caress 1987 Oil on canvas. 152.4 x 152.4 cm. (60 x 60 in). Signed, titled and dated ‘Sean Scully Caress 1987’ on the reverse.
Provenance David McKee Gallery, New York Exhibited Bologna, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Sean Scully 1996 Literature Exhibition Catalogue, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Sean Scully Bologna, 1996, p. 50 Catalogue Essay It was the most adventurous, in a sense the most dangerous, the most insecure, and, potentially, the most profound thing I could do. My work is really based on a kind of idealism and romanticism with beauty and form and profundity all wrapped up. I am taking on the history of art, I am immersed in it and I’m immersed in what I make. I am what I make in other words; there is no difference…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. S. Scully in ‘Sean Scully – Body of Light’ taken from the National Gallery of Austria www.nga.gov.au Read More
Sean Scully Caress 1987 Oil on canvas. 152.4 x 152.4 cm. (60 x 60 in). Signed, titled and dated ‘Sean Scully Caress 1987’ on the reverse.
Provenance David McKee Gallery, New York Exhibited Bologna, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Sean Scully 1996 Literature Exhibition Catalogue, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Sean Scully Bologna, 1996, p. 50 Catalogue Essay It was the most adventurous, in a sense the most dangerous, the most insecure, and, potentially, the most profound thing I could do. My work is really based on a kind of idealism and romanticism with beauty and form and profundity all wrapped up. I am taking on the history of art, I am immersed in it and I’m immersed in what I make. I am what I make in other words; there is no difference…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. S. Scully in ‘Sean Scully – Body of Light’ taken from the National Gallery of Austria www.nga.gov.au Read More
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