Sean Scully

Landline Blue Black, 2016

Aquatint etching on Hahnemühle bright white paper Sheet size 71,10 x 53,30 cm Image size 38,10 x 25,40 cm signed, numbered (Printer: Harlan and Weaver, Inc., NY) Edition of 30 + 10 AP + HC


Sean Scully is among the greatest abstract painters of our age. He is also one of the most outspoken. Since the late 1960s, Scully’s visual expressiveness has been matched by a verbal dynamism that is no less arresting than his art. Varying widely in form from brief reflections of compressed eloquence to essay-long meditations on artists such as Vincent Van Gogh, Giorgio Morandi and Mark Rothko–Scully’s writings are distinguished by a brutal lyricism and the effortlessness of their aphoristic turn of phrase.