Enter Black

Details

Sean Scully (b. 1945)
Enter Black
titled and dated 'ENTER BLACK 1998' (on the reverse)
oil on linen
96 x 84in (244 x 213.5cm.)
Painted in 1998

Provenance

Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zurich.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in September 1998.

Literature

Sean Scully, Gemälde, Pastelle, Aquarelle, Fotografien 1990-2000, exh. cat., Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, 2001, p. 222, no. 1.

Exhibited

Vienna, BAWAG Foundation, Sean Scully, 1998 (illustrated in colour, p. 17)
Klosterneuburg, Sammlung Essl - Kunst der Gegenwart, Sammlung Essl - the first view, 1999-2000, p. 393 (illustrated in colour, p. 247).
Klosterneuburg, Sammlung Essl - Kunst der Gegenwart, Augenblick, Foto\Kunst, 2002, p. 164 (illustrated in colour, p. 111).

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Descriptif du lot

‘There are no simple colours in my work… there are no whites, no reds. Colours are always subverted by the colours underneath, so when you’re looking at something you’re never quite sure what you’re looking at’ (S. Scully, quoted in H. Amirsadeghi and M. Homayoun Eisler (eds.), Sanctuary: Britain’s Artists and their Studios, London 2011, p. 112).

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