Sean Scully Art
American, b. 1945
Born 1945, Dublin, Ireland; lives in New York City
Born in Ireland in 1945, Sean Scully was raised and educated in London. In 1975, he moved to New York where he was immediately influenced by the geometric and color field painters working in that city: Barnett Newman, Ad Reinhardt, and, especially, Mark Rothko. Abandoning the figurative work he was pursuing at the time, Scully began working with the deliberately reduced set of motifs that have occupied him for the last twenty years.
Scully gathers his motifs from everyday experience; he looks at doors, windows, road maps, and uses photography “as a means of defining the parameters of his own visual world.” He does not depict the world but finds in the world visual experiences that correspond to his artistic mission. Specifically, Scully seeks to portray the richness of life through the relationships between the colors of his characteristically dark and understated palette. The reduction of formal elements to stripes and squares allows the color relationships to be of utmost importance. In the indefinite transition zones between colors, Scully exposes the “mystery of ambivalence and uncertainty” that permeates the human experience.
Sean Scully is one of the most important contemporary artists working today, and his work can be seen in museums around the world including the Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.to
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Artist: Sean Scully
Composition, Heart of Darkness, Sean Scully
By Sean Scully
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching in colors on vélin de Lana Royal paper. Paper Size: 11.93 x 9.81 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Heart of Darkness, 1992. Publ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Sean Scully Art
Materials
Etching
Glaspalast Edition print, Munich, Germany 1996 (Hand Signed by Sean Scully)
By Sean Scully
Located in New York, NY
Sean Scully
Munich 1996 (Hand Signed), 2001
Offset Lithograph print Hand signed and dated by Sean Scully in 2018
Boldly signed in black marker on the recto. Hand signed by Sean Scull...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Geometric Sean Scully Art
Materials
Ink, Permanent Marker, Lithograph, Offset
Roland Garros French Open tennis Paris offset print (Hand signed by Sean Scully)
By Sean Scully
Located in New York, NY
Sean Scully
Roland Garros French Open tennis tournament, Paris, France (Hand signed by Sean Scully), 2001
Offset lithograph poster (hand signed by Sean Scully)
29 3/4 inches (vertica...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Sean Scully Art
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Sean Scully, Standing 2, colored woodcut on handmade paper, signed #14/35 Framed
By Sean Scully
Located in New York, NY
Sean Scully
Standing 2, 1986
Color Woodcut on handmade Okawara paper
Signed, inscribed with title and numbered from the limited edition of only 35 in graphite on the front. Matted an...
Category
1980s Abstract Sean Scully Art
Materials
Rice Paper, Woodcut
Composition, Heart of Darkness, Sean Scully
By Sean Scully
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching in colors on vélin de Lana Royal paper. Paper Size: 11.93 x 9.81 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Heart of Darkness, 1992. Publ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Sean Scully Art
Materials
Etching
Wall Yellow (Myanmar)
By Sean Scully
Located in Washington , DC, DC
Beautiful poster sold for a limited time of only one month. Text and stamped en verso
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Sean Scully Art
Materials
Lithograph
Whitechapel Gallery Gallery London Exhibition print, Hand Signed by Sean Scully
By Sean Scully
Located in New York, NY
Sean Scully Hand Signed print Geometric Abstraction Minimalist, 1989
Offset lithograph poster
Boldly signed in black marker on the front by Sean Scully
29 3/4 x 20 inches
Unframed
Th...
Category
1980s Abstract Sean Scully Art
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Composition, Heart of Darkness, Sean Scully
By Sean Scully
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching in colors on vélin de Lana Royal paper. Paper Size: 11.93 x 9.81 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Heart of Darkness, 1992. Publ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Sean Scully Art
Materials
Etching
Composition, Heart of Darkness, Sean Scully
By Sean Scully
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching in colors on vélin de Lana Royal paper. Paper Size: 11.93 x 9.81 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Heart of Darkness, 1992. Publ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Sean Scully Art
Materials
Etching
A Pair of origin Photographs Sean Scully Pueblo Museum COA Rare Important Mexico
By Sean Scully
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original C-Print from Sean Scully's Pueblo Dzibalchen series (A Suite of 20) created in 2001. This work comes in a fantastic natural wood archival frame presentation. This series was shot by Scully in Campeche, Mexico.
Photograph size: 20 x 24 in.
Framed Size: 27.5 x 33.5
Painter, photographer, watercolorist, and printmaker Sean Scully roams the world with his camera, capturing its surfaces in places as far-flung as Mexico and the Aran Islands...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Sean Scully Art
Materials
C Print, Photographic Paper
Composition, Heart of Darkness, Sean Scully
By Sean Scully
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching in colors on vélin de Lana Royal paper. Paper Size: 11.93 x 9.81 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Heart of Darkness, 1992. Publ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Sean Scully Art
Materials
Etching
Sean Scully Night and Day (hardback monograph, hand signed by Sean Scully)
By Sean Scully
Located in New York, NY
Sean Scully
Sean Scully Night and Day (hardback monograph, hand signed by Sean Scully), 2013
Hardback monograph with cloth covers and no dust jacket (hand signed by Sean Scully)
Hand...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sean Scully Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Lithograph, Offset
Composition, Heart of Darkness, Sean Scully
By Sean Scully
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching in colors on vélin de Lana Royal paper. Paper Size: 11.93 x 9.81 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Heart of Darkness, 1992. Publ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Sean Scully Art
Materials
Etching
Composition, Heart of Darkness, Sean Scully
By Sean Scully
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching in colors on vélin de Lana Royal paper. Paper Size: 11.93 x 9.81 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Heart of Darkness, 1992. Publ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Sean Scully Art
Materials
Etching
Composition, Heart of Darkness, Sean Scully
By Sean Scully
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching in colors on vélin de Lana Royal paper. Paper Size: 11.93 x 9.81 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Heart of Darkness, 1992. Publ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Sean Scully Art
Materials
Etching
Sean Scully Estampes (Graphic Works) exhibition poster (Hand Signed by Scully)
By Sean Scully
Located in New York, NY
Sean Scully Estampes, France (Hand Signed), 2006
Offset Lithograph poster
Boldly signed in black marker on the front by Sean Scully for the present owner
Unframed
This is a wonderful piece for true Scully fans. It's a rare 2006 poster from the European exhibition entitled "Sean Scully Estampes" (Sean Scully Prints...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Sean Scully Art
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Walls of Aran book Hand signed and inscribed by BOTH Sean Scully and Colm Toibin
By Sean Scully
Located in New York, NY
Sean Scully
Walls of Aran (Hand signed and inscribed by BOTH Sean Scully and Colm Toibin), 2007
Hardback monograph with book jacket
Hand signed and personally inscribed to Kevin by ...
Category
Early 2000s Neo-Expressionist Sean Scully Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Lithograph, Offset, Board
Doric (Hand signed by Sean Scully)
By Sean Scully
Located in New York, NY
Sean Scully
Doric (Hand signed by Sean Scully), 2012
Hardback monograph (hand signed by Sean Scully on the title page)
Hand signed by Sean Scully for the present owner at a special ...
Category
2010s Abstract Sean Scully Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Permanent Marker, Lithograph, Offset
A Set of Five Original Photographs Sean Scully Pueblo Museum COA Rare Important
By Sean Scully
Located in Buffalo, NY
A group of five original C-Prints from Sean Scully's Pueblo Dzibalchen series (A Suite of 20) created in 2001. Each work comes in a fantastic natural wood archival frame presentation. This series was shot by Scully in Campeche, Mexico.
Photograph size: 20 x 24 in.
Framed Size: 27.5 x 33.5
Painter, photographer, watercolorist, and printmaker Sean Scully roams the world with his camera, capturing its surfaces in places as far-flung as Mexico and the Aran Islands...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Sean Scully Art
Materials
C Print, Photographic Paper
Different Places, Hardback monograph (Hand signed and inscribed by Sean Scully)
By Sean Scully
Located in New York, NY
Sean Scully
Different Places (hand signed and inscribed by Sean Scully), 2015
Limited Edition hardback monograph (hand signed and inscribed to Nadine in felt tip pen on the title pag...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Sean Scully Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Lithograph, Offset
Sean Scully: Material World (Monograph Hand signed and dated by Sean Scully)
By Sean Scully
Located in New York, NY
Sean Scully: Material World (Hand signed and dated by Sean Scully), 2022
Hardback monograph on Munken Lynx, 150 gsm paper (hand signed by Sean Scully)
Boldly signed and dated by Sean Scully in black marker on the first front end page
11 1/2 × 9 3/4 × 3/4 inches
Unframed
This lavish hardback monograph [book] with no dust jacket, as issued, was published in conjunction with the exhibition "Sean Scully Material World" at the Thorvaldsens Museum, Copenhagen, from September 2, 2022 to March 5, 2023. It was, exceptionally, hand signed by Sean Scully for us at a special event at Rizzoli books in Manhattan, where he was in conversation with curator and book contributor Raphy Sarkissian...
Category
2010s Abstract Sean Scully Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Permanent Marker, Lithograph, Offset
An Original Photograph Sean Scully Pueblo Museum COA Rare Important Mexico
By Sean Scully
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original C-Print from Sean Scully's Pueblo Dzibalchen series (A Suite of 20) created in 2001. This work comes in a fantastic natural wood archival frame presentation. This series was shot by Scully in Campeche, Mexico.
Photograph size: 20 x 24 in.
Framed Size: 27.5 x 33.5
Painter, photographer, watercolorist, and printmaker Sean Scully roams the world with his camera, capturing its surfaces in places as far-flung as Mexico and the Aran Islands...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Sean Scully Art
Materials
C Print, Photographic Paper
An Original Photograph Sean Scully Pueblo COA Rare Important Mexico coca cola
By Sean Scully
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original C-Print from Sean Scully's Pueblo Dzibalchen series (A Suite of 20) created in 2001. This work comes in a fantastic natural wood archival frame presentation. This series was shot by Scully in Campeche, Mexico.
Photograph size: 20 x 24 in.
Framed Size: 27.5 x 33.5
Painter, photographer, watercolorist, and printmaker Sean Scully roams the world with his camera, capturing its surfaces in places as far-flung as Mexico and the Aran Islands...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Sean Scully Art
Materials
C Print, Photographic Paper
An Original Photograph Sean Scully Pueblo Museum COA Rare Important Mexico
By Sean Scully
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original C-Print from Sean Scully's Pueblo Dzibalchen series (A Suite of 20) created in 2001. This work comes in a fantastic natural wood archival frame presentation. This series was shot by Scully in Campeche, Mexico.
Photograph size: 20 x 24 in.
Framed Size: 27.5 x 33.5
Painter, photographer, watercolorist, and printmaker Sean Scully roams the world with his camera, capturing its surfaces in places as far-flung as Mexico and the Aran Islands...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Sean Scully Art
Materials
C Print, Photographic Paper
An Original Photograph Sean Scully Pueblo COA Rare Important Mexico coca cola
By Sean Scully
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original C-Print from Sean Scully's Pueblo Dzibalchen series (A Suite of 20) created in 2001. This work comes in a fantastic natural wood archival frame presentation. This series was shot by Scully in Campeche, Mexico.
Photograph size: 20 x 24 in.
Framed Size: 27.5 x 33.5
Painter, photographer, watercolorist, and printmaker Sean Scully roams the world with his camera, capturing its surfaces in places as far-flung as Mexico and the Aran Islands...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Sean Scully Art
Materials
C Print, Photographic Paper
An Original Photograph Sean Scully Pueblo COA Rare Important Mexico coca cola
By Sean Scully
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original C-Print from Sean Scully's Pueblo Dzibalchen series (A Suite of 20) created in 2001. This work comes in a fantastic natural wood archival frame presentation. This series was shot by Scully in Campeche, Mexico.
Photograph size: 20 x 24 in.
Framed Size: 27.5 x 33.5
Painter, photographer, watercolorist, and printmaker Sean Scully roams the world with his camera, capturing its surfaces in places as far-flung as Mexico and the Aran Islands...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Sean Scully Art
Materials
C Print, Photographic Paper
Cage - iPhone drawing, pigment print, window, grid, black and colorful
By Sean Scully
Located in Köln, DE
Since Sean Scully figured out to draw on the iPhone display, these drawings are published as archival pigment prints. The depictions is the same as in his paintings and prints...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sean Scully Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Window - iPhone drawing, pigment print, window, wall, bright colors
By Sean Scully
Located in Köln, DE
Since Sean Scully figured out to draw on the iPhone display, these drawings are published as archival pigment prints. The depictions is the same as in his paintings and prints but th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sean Scully Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Dark Square - iPhone drawing, pigment print, blue, grey, wall, window
By Sean Scully
Located in Köln, DE
Since Sean Scully figured out to draw on the iPhone display, these drawings are published as archival pigment prints. The depictions is the same as in his paintings and prints but th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sean Scully Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Coin Tower - iPhone drawing, pigment print, blue, black, tower
By Sean Scully
Located in Köln, DE
Since Sean Scully figured out to draw on the iPhone display, these drawings are published as archival pigment prints. The depictions is the same as in his paintings and prints...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sean Scully Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Inset - iPhone drawing, pigment print, wall, grid
By Sean Scully
Located in Köln, DE
Since Sean Scully figured out to draw on the iPhone display, these drawings are published as archival pigment prints. The depictions is the same as in his paintings and prints...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sean Scully Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Cage Green - iPhone drawing, pigment print, window, grid
By Sean Scully
Located in Köln, DE
Since Sean Scully figured out to draw on the iPhone display, these drawings are published as archival pigment prints. The depictions is the same as in his paintings and prints but th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sean Scully Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
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