DETAIL : Sean SCULLY Ireland 1945  Robe figure, 2003 2003 Painting oil on canvas
 
 
Sean SCULLY | 7.20.03 2003

 
SCULLY, Sean
Ireland 1945
to Great Britain 1949, to United States of America 1975
7.20.03 2003 2003
painting
pastel on paper
paper 101.5 (h) x 152.5 (w) cm
Private collection
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I’m trying to articulate abstraction. Abstraction is the art that’s capable now of handling so many areas which other forms of art can’t deal with. Abstraction is flat, it can completely liberate the artwork.

Sean Scully, interview with Adrian Dannatt, ‘I don’t have the American ambition of being the next great abstract artist’, Flash Art, vol. 25, no. 164, May–June 1992, pp. 103–105 (p. 104).

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