DETAIL : Sean SCULLY Ireland 1945  Robe figure, 2003 2003 Painting oil on canvas
 
 
Sean SCULLY | Large mirror II

 
SCULLY, Sean
Ireland 1945
to Great Britain 1949, to United States of America 1975
Large mirror II 1997
print
etching, aquatint, spitbite, sugarlift on paper
edition AP 2/8
AP 2/8
image 45.5 (h) x 40.5 (w) cm
paper 76.0 (h) x 57.2 (w) cm
Galerie Lelong, Paris
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[Within] this dynamic, you can make something for yourself that I’m not actually [illustrating] … I’m not trying to dominate the viewer. I’m trying to make a situation that the viewer completes.

Sean Scully, interview with Hans-Michael Herzog, ‘The beauty of the real’,
Sean Scully (exhibition catalogue), Milan: Charta, 1996, pp. 55–131 (p. 81).

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