Sean Scully

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American-Irish (Active in USA) | 1945

Sean Scully is an American-Irish (active in USA) Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1945. His work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Bucerius Kunst Forum in Hamburg and will be on exhibit at David Zwirner, New York (519 W 19th Street) on October 28, 2025, among other locations. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Lisson Gallery, London (Lisson Street) have featured Sean Scully's work in the past.Sean Scully's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 9 USD to 2,046,500 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 2,046,500 USD for Song, sold at Sotheby's New York in 2022. In the past 12 months, his paintings have averaged 568,526 USD, while his works on paper have sold for an average of 66,056 USD.Sean Scully has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for ArtDaily in October 2025.

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Union Grey

By Sean Scully

Weng Contemporary

Landline Falling ,2019

By Sean Scully

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Wall of Light Pale Green ,2014

By Sean Scully

Phillips New York

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Cut Ground Orange ,2009

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Landline Green Sea ,2014

By Sean Scully

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Landline Sea ,2015

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The Colour of Time ,2004

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Wall of Light Pale Green ,2014

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Landline Falling ,2019

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A FRAMED POSTER

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Liliane #1 ,2010

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Current Exhibitions

Sean Scully: Tower

Lisson Gallery, New York (508 W 24th Str.)

Chelsea | New York | USA

06 Nov, 2025 - 24 Jan, 2026

Hello Again: Fresh From the Back Room

Greg Kucera Gallery

Seattle | Washington | USA

06 Nov, 2025 - 20 Dec, 2025

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The Anderson Collection at Stanford University

Stanford | California | USA

10 Sep, 2025 - 15 Feb, 2026

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The Art Diary November 2025

ArtLyst 04 Nov, 2025

November鈥檚 art diary begins with exhibitions by artists (including Lakwena Maciver, Hannah Rose Thomas, Tuli Mekondjo, and Paul B. Kincaid), about which I鈥檝e written previously or with which I have worked, and venues with similar connections, mainly with a link to spirituality.

Inside the Newly Reopened Princeton Art Museum

Hyperallergic 03 Nov, 2025

After five years, the institution invited the public for a 24-hour marathon celebration to inaugurate its new boxy, 146,000-square-foot home.

Exhibition at David Zwirner Gallery Hopes to Raise $350,000 for New York鈥檚 Ali Forney Center

ARTnews 28 Oct, 2025

For the past two years, Sotheby鈥檚 has hosted benefit auctions to raise money for the Ali Forney Center, a nonprofit organization in New York that aims to protect LGBTQ+ youth from homelessness.

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鈥� ..Through color Scully achieves a strong emotional quality in his work... 鈥�
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Kunstmuseum Bern

鈥� ..Scully's works often have about them an architectural order and these new paintings take these principles to new levels... 鈥�
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Benaki Museum of Greek Culture

鈥� ..Rejecting the meticulous, precise gridded paintings he made in the 1970s, Scully始s work took a dramatic turn in the early 1980s... 鈥�
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Timothy Taylor, London

鈥� ..Using ordinary house painting brushes Scully built up broad panels and stripes, working wet on wet, their handworked quality suggestive of fragility and fallibility... 鈥�
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Timothy Taylor, London

鈥� ..Scully himself has described his paintings as personalities 鈥� suggesting they can be deciphered and understood to an extent, but ultimately remaining mysterious and unknowable... 鈥�
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Timothy Taylor, London

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