Thames & Hudson [ed.] - Sean Scully Sean Scully (2004) - Lot 103

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Thames & Hudson [ed.] - Sean Scully Sean Scully (2004) - Lot 103
Thames & Hudson [ed.] - Sean Scully Sean Scully (2004) Irish-born artist Sean Scully is one of today's most admired painters. His abundant artistic output, spanning a period of thirty years, has been the subject of numerous exhibitions worldwide. Like Rothko's blurred rectangles, the vertical and horizontal bands of color that recur in his paintings, evoking doors, windows and walls, make his style instantly recognizable. Although resolutely abstract, his paintings possess a physical, almost corporeal dimension that gives them a striking intensity. The first monograph to cover the whole of Scully's life and work, this book traces his journey from childhood in London's underprivileged districts to Munich, where he now lives, via New York and Barcelona, two cities that have played a fundamental role in the development of his art. It shows how Scully has drawn on sources of influence such as urban rhythms, Afro-American popular music, trips to Morocco and Mexico, cinema and photography to create a highly personal body of work that, while part of the history of abstraction, maintains an ambiguous relationship with the figurative. Illustrated with superb color reproductions, this book presents all the artistic techniques Scully explored over the course of his career - oil on canvas and metal, pastel, watercolor, etching, woodcut and photography - offering for the first time a comprehensive overview of his work, from the famous Backs and Fronts of 1981 to the recent Walls of Light, Plaids, Mirrors and Floating Paintings of the 1990s.
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