12.4.18
2018
A luminous arrangement of horizontal bands in muted, earthy tones fills the paper, rendered in Sean Scully's characteristically meditative approach to abstraction. The soft bleeding edges of the watercolour washes are grounded by delicate pencil marks, creating a tension between fluidity and structure. The work exemplifies Scully's enduring exploration of the stripe as a vessel for emotional and painterly depth.
- Medium
- watercolour and pencil on paper
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
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April 11, 2019
Artists in conversation
Agnes Martin
American (Canadian born) · b. 1912
Martin's delicate graphite and watercolour works on paper share the same meditative quietude and horizontal banded compositions as this Scully piece, using subtle tonal variation and pencil marks to achieve a spiritual tension between geometry and softness.
Callum Innes
Scottish · b. 1962
Innes works with muted, earthy tonal fields and layered washes where pigment bleeds and dissolves at edges, creating the same interplay between fluid watercolour looseness and structural restraint seen in this horizontal stripe composition.
Günter Umberg
German · b. 1942
Umberg's deeply meditative abstract works employ hushed, resonant tonal registers and a reductive formal language that mirrors Scully's use of the stripe as an emotionally charged vessel, emphasising painterly depth over decorative gesture.
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