Bidspirit auction | Sean Scully: Room

Sean Scully: Room - SCULLY, SEAN 1945 Dublin Title: Room. Date: 1988. Technique: Colour aquatint on Somerset Textured White. Depiction Size: 80 x 105cm. Sheet Size: 105 x 129cm. Notation: Signed, titled, dated and numbered. Publisher: Crown Point Press, San Francisco (publisher). Number: 21/40. Frame: Framed. Provenance: - B R Kornblatt Gallery, Washington D.C. (label) - Bayer Inc, USA - Bayer AG, Leverkusen (acquired from the previous owner in 2005) Exhibitions: - Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin 2013 Literature: - Oberhuber, Konrad (ed.): Sean Scully - Prints, Catalogue raisonné 1968-1999, Vienna and others 1999, cat. rais. no. 88002, fig. - Miksche, Uta: Bayer Collection of Contemporary Art, Sewickly 1995, p. 101, fig. - Exhib. cat. From Beckmann to Warhol, Art of the 20th and 21st Centuries - The Bayer Collection, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Cologne 2013, p. 253, fig. - Room is a typical example from the series of popular geometric stripe paintings - Scully creates an interplay of structure and colour surfaces, symmetry and disharmony as well as precise geometry and sensual imperfection, which become a universal expression - Sean Scully's work has been exhibited at the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Albertina, Vienna and the LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster, among others Estimated shipping costs for this lot: Arrangement after the auction. This lot will be sold under standard taxation (Condition of Sale §V5.1) Explanations to the Catalogue Sean Scully Great Britain Abstraction Post-War Art Prints 1980s Framed Abstract Print Aquatint etching Shapes