Untitled (7.17.86)

Details

Sean Scully (b. 1945)
Untitled (7.17.86)
signed and dated 'Sean Scully 7.17.86' (lower right)
pastel
29½ x 41½ in. (75 x 105.5 cm.)

Provenance

with Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, where purchased by the present owner.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

"The pastels, those big pastels that I make, are very monumental ... They have a physicality, but they have the physicality of powder ... or chalk, whereas the paintings are shiny, inherently shiny ... One doesn't get the sense with a pastel that it has an outer skin, that it has a beginning and an end. It seems, well, it's powder, so one is chasing its outer and inner extremities when one's looking at it, because you don't really know where it starts and where it ends"
(S. Scully quoted in N. Rifkin (ed.), Sean Scully: Twenty years 1976-1995, London, 1995, p. 79).

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