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CG
Cut Ground
2006 · Oil on canvas
96 x 144 in. (243.8 x 365.8 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Sean Scully
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PaintingMinimalismAbstract Expressionism
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None documented
1
Institutional Exhibitions
71
Works in Collection
105
Assets Indexed
5
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80%
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- • Minimalism
- • Abstract Expressionism
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Lisson Street: Sean Scully – The Nature of Art
Lisson Gallery
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Sean Scully is an Irish-born painter working in abstraction, known for large-scale compositions of stacked and interlocking stripes and geometric forms rendered in oil and acrylic. His work operates between formalist rigor and emotional warmth, treating color and line as vehicles for contemplative experience rather than decoration.
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