DETAIL : Sean SCULLY Ireland 1945  Robe figure, 2003 2003 Painting oil on canvas
 
 
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Sean
SCULLY
Two windows grey diptych

 
SCULLY, Sean
Ireland 1945
to Great Britain 1949, to United States of America 1975
Two windows grey diptych 2000
painting
oil on linen
canvas 81.0 (h) x 61.0 (w) cm
Private collection
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I think my paintings rely on repression and expression, which in me, of course, causes great discomfort, great unease and struggle. In a certain way, the paintings are based on a distrust of both possibilities.

Sean Scully, cited in Sean Scully and Mimmo Paladino, ‘In at the deep end’, Modern Painters, vol. 6, no. 2, Summer 1993, pp. 25–27 (p. 25).

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