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Music
Details
SEAN SCULLY (B. 1945)
Music
signed, titled twice and dated ‘music Sean Scully 1986 MUSIC’ (on the reverse)
oil on three attached canvases
86 x 108in. (243.8 x 274.6cm.)
Painted in 1986
Music
signed, titled twice and dated ‘music Sean Scully 1986 MUSIC’ (on the reverse)
oil on three attached canvases
86 x 108in. (243.8 x 274.6cm.)
Painted in 1986
Provenance
David McKee Gallery, New York.
Camille Oliver-Hoffmann Collection, Chicago (acquired from the above in 1987).
Her. sale., Sotheby's New York, 26 May 2001, lot 398.
Private Collection (acquired at the above sale).
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2016.
Camille Oliver-Hoffmann Collection, Chicago (acquired from the above in 1987).
Her. sale., Sotheby's New York, 26 May 2001, lot 398.
Private Collection (acquired at the above sale).
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2016.
Literature
M. Price, Sean Scully: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Volume II, 1980-1989, Berlin 2018, no. 1986.17 (illustrated in colour, p. 182).
Exhibited
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Three Decades: The Oliver-Hoffmann Collection, 1988-1989, (illustrated in colour, p. 58).
Hanover, Dartmouth College, Sean Scully: The Art of the Stripe, 2008, pp. 41 and 134 (installation view illustrated in colour, pp. vi and vii; illlustrated in colour, p. 42; detail illustrated in colour, pp. 75 and 107).
Carlow, VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art & the George Bernhard Shaw Theatre, Sean Scully: Works from the 1980s, 2010, p. 28, no. 38 (illustrated in colour, p. 67). This exhibition later travelled to Leeds, Leeds Art Gallery.
Bern, Kunstmuseum Bern, Sean Scully: Grey Wolf-Retrospective, 2012, pp. 36, 76 and 203 (illustrated in colour, p. 77). This exhibition later travelled to Linz, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz.
New York, Mnuchin Gallery, Sean Scully: Eighties, 2016, pp. 14 and 34 (illustrated in colour, pp. 35 and 68).
Hanover, Dartmouth College, Sean Scully: The Art of the Stripe, 2008, pp. 41 and 134 (installation view illustrated in colour, pp. vi and vii; illlustrated in colour, p. 42; detail illustrated in colour, pp. 75 and 107).
Carlow, VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art & the George Bernhard Shaw Theatre, Sean Scully: Works from the 1980s, 2010, p. 28, no. 38 (illustrated in colour, p. 67). This exhibition later travelled to Leeds, Leeds Art Gallery.
Bern, Kunstmuseum Bern, Sean Scully: Grey Wolf-Retrospective, 2012, pp. 36, 76 and 203 (illustrated in colour, p. 77). This exhibition later travelled to Linz, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz.
New York, Mnuchin Gallery, Sean Scully: Eighties, 2016, pp. 14 and 34 (illustrated in colour, pp. 35 and 68).
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Michelle McMullan
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