Provenance
Galeria Carles Taché, Barcelona
Catalogue Essay
“What I am painting is a simple divisional structure, but you see the way it is painted, what colour it is painted, and how many times it is painted in relation to that simple structure … I’ve re-established something that I think had been broken – that the abstractionists kept building on abstraction and I think they forgot what it was originally based on. What I did, basically, was I went back to what it was originally based on. Then I just had something that I could compose with. So, in that sense, my painting is completely open. That is why I can make so many different compositional forms. It comes very naturally out of the way I draw and work and paint; one thing leads to another, which leads to another. I’m not really, in that sense, in a corner, which is what happens to a lot of abstract painters – they end up in a corner. People can kind of look at it and enjoy it because it has a kind of open vitality. I’m very free to paint them the way I want to paint them with many, many layers. The paintings, in that sense, are not absolute. There is nothing authoritarian about them. “As one critic said, which I thought was interesting, they are like intimate paintings on a giant scale. They maintain the connection with painting; they don’t give that up. At the same time, the language I use is the language of the contemporary world you can find anywhere, on computer screens, things are arranged in rows and lines; it’s simple numerical order. If I stand in the subway in New York and I look down, everything is repeated. That’s how we put the world together now. And that is how I put my paintings together. In that sense they are in complete accord with the contemporary world so people can enter them quite naturally … “They are abstract paintings and they are quite lyrical. But they remind you of things that exist in the world. They remind you of the way the world is ordered … They are traditional in the sense that they make a connection, certainly, with the history of painting. One can think about other painters when one is looking at my paintings. If you want to you can think about Velázquez and you can think about Rothko, but you can also think about Cimabue when you think about Rothko, that is part of Rothko’s greatness.” (Sean Scully, interview with R. Eric Davis in Journal of Contemporary Art, 1999, www.jca-online.com/scully.html)

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Sean Scully

Small Horizontal Robe

2003
Oil on canvas.
101 x 127 cm (39 3/4 x 50 in).
Signed, titled and dated ‘Small Horizontal Robe Sean Scully 1.03’ on the reverse.

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£250,000 - 350,000 ‡♠

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Oh, Sad, I See
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Jacob Kassay
Untitled
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Stranger in the Village #8
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Get up girl a sun is running the world
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Urs Fischer
Thank You Fuck You
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Wade Guyton
Untitled
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
Self-Portrait
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Beatriz Milhazes
O Moderno
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Tony Cragg
The Fanatics
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Kelley Walker
Untitled
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Sean Scully
Small Horizontal Robe
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Ilya Kabakov
A Solemn Painting
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Cecily Brown
I Will Not Paint Any More Boring Leaves (2)
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
Untitled
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Andy Warhol
Mao
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Alighiero Boetti
Untitled
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Rosemarie Trockel
Untitled (Vogelköpfe)
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O Conflicto
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Damien Hirst
Confession
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Mark Tansey
Library (of Babylon)
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Ugo Rondinone
11.September 2008
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Peter Fischli and David Weiss
Brush Pot
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Christopher Wool
Untitled
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Rudolf Stingel
Untitled
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Victor Vasarely
Binaire FF
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Andreas Gursky
Heidelberg Ost
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Heinz Mack
Untitled
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Cavallo
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Pergamon Museum IV, Berlin
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Muhammad Ali
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Don Diego
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