Scully, Sean | Paris Black, 2004 — available on Composition Gallery

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Signed, titled, dated and numbered by Scully in pencil. Printed by Woolworth Editions, Paris.

Scully's 'Paris Black' epitomizes the artist's meditation on color, geometry, and human emotion through abstract form. Bold horizontal stripes in deep blacks and charcoal tones evoke a landscape of the mind—restless, contemplative, and profoundly moving.

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

Paris Black, 2004

Name: Paris Black, 2004
SKU: 17036

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.

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Lithograph

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Edition of 40

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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 Richard Serra

What is Postminimalism?

Postminimalism refers to a range of art styles that emerged in the 1960s, following the Minimalism movement. While Minimalism focused on simplicity and impersonality, Postminimalist artists retained some elements of Minimalism but also explored greater expressiveness, experimenting with new materials and techniques. This movement includes various forms of art such as conceptual art, body art, performance art, process art, and site-specific works. Postminimalism represents a shift toward more personal, tactile, and process-oriented approaches to art-making.

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Sean Scully

Paris Black, 2004

76 x 106 cm

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