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Aquatint with sugarlift, spitbite and hard-ground etching. Somerset Textured White 300 gsm paper. Image dimensions: 61 × 46 cm. Sheet dimensions: 86 × 71 cm. Hand signed, dated, titled, and numbered in pencil.

Liliane 8 opens Sean Scully's celebrated diptych series with a pairing of pale blue horizontal lines hovering over a black field in the upper register and a warm brown sienna block resting on grey below. Executed in aquatint with sugarlift, spitbite, and hard-ground etching on Somerset paper, the print achieves a tonal richness that recalls the artist's monumental paintings. The tension between cool blue and earthy warmth generates a quiet emotional resonance. Signed and dated by Scully, this 2010 work from an edition of 40 establishes the intimate, contemplative mood of the entire Liliane suite.

Sean Scully (Ireland, 1945) is a contemporary artist renowned for his abstract paintings characterized by bold stripes and geometric forms. His work bridges Minimalism and Emotional Abstraction, emphasizing color and texture. Scully's art is featured in major institutions like MoMA and Tate Modern, reflecting his significant influence on modern abstraction.

Sean Scully

Liliane 8, 2010

Name: Liliane 8, 2010
SKU: 17153
Price: 5750.00 EUR
Availability: InStock

Form

Limited Edition Print

Limited Edition PrintA limited edition print is one of a number of prints made at the same time from one printmaking plate. A fixed number are made and signed by the artist, indicating the printing order, using the format 1/10, meaning first of ten prints.

Medium

Etching and Aquatint

Etching and AquatintEtching and aquatint are printmaking techniques. In aquatint, the printing plate is etched with a pattern of tiny pits and cracks to create a wide range of tonal gradations. This technique allows artists to replicate the broad, flat tones found in watercolor paintings and ink washes.

Edition

Edition of 40 + 10 AP

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When I got into art school, I thought it was paradise.
- Sean Scully

Widely acclaimed for his abstract oil paintings, Sean Scully is an artist whose works often combine geometric structures with contrasting soft edges and thick uneven surfaces to form alternating panels of coloured squares or stripes – such works as Green Ascending and Rouge perfectly exemplify his trademark style of painting. Although his abstract works appear to have no specific reference, Scully’s previous employment as a typesetter had a great bearing on his later artistic outputs, and of his Land Sea exhibition, Scully noted that his experience of visiting Venice was a major influence as he sought to recreate ‘the movement of the water, how it heaves against the brick and stone of the city’; the artist also noted that his earliest memory of art is of a series of devotional paintings on show at a local Catholic church where he grew up, commenting that they were ‘very geometric, like Russian paintings.’ (Artist website)

Artwork by Helen Frankenthaler

What is lyrical abstraction ?

Lyrical abstraction is a descriptive term characterizing a type of abstract painting closely related to Abstract Expressionism, in use from the 1940s to the present. The term can also describe two distinct but related trends in post-World War II modernist painting. This art movement originated in Paris, France, after the war, emphasizing personal expression, spontaneity, and the emotional use of color and form.

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Sean Scully

Liliane 8, 2010

86 x 71 cm

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