Great expectations for Sean Scully artwork at Clarke, July 10

Sean Scully, ‘Drawing #30,’ est. $20,000-$30,000

 

Sean Scully, ‘Drawing #30,’ est. $20,000-$30,000
Sean Scully, ‘Drawing #30,’ est. $20,000-$30,000

LARCHMONT, N.Y. — For its summer estates auction on Sunday, July 10, which begins at 10 am Eastern time, Clarke Auction Gallery will present a well-rounded sale that hits all the major collecting categories with examples of notable and important works. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.

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Sean Scully exhibition in Philadelphia through July 31

‘Landline Pink,’ 2013, by Sean Scully. Oil on linen, 47 by 42in. Collection of the artist. Image courtesy of the artist. Photographer: Christoph Knoch. © Sean Scully.
‘Landline Pink,’ 2013, by Sean Scully. Oil on linen, 47 by 42in. Collection of the artist. Image courtesy of the artist. Photographer: Christoph Knoch. © Sean Scully.
‘Landline Pink,’ 2013, by Sean Scully. Oil on linen, 47 by 42in. Collection of the artist. Image courtesy of the artist. Photographer: Christoph Knoch. © Sean Scully.

PHILADELPHIA – The Philadelphia Museum of Art will present a major survey of Irish-born American artist Sean Scully, featuring paintings and works on paper from the early 1970s to the present. Sean Scully: The Shape of Ideas will chart the artist’s significant contributions to the American and European history of abstract painting as it has developed during the last half-century, while emphasizing the integral relationship between Scully’s paintings, drawings, watercolors and prints, which are rarely exhibited together. The exhibition will be on view from April 11 to July 31.

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