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Modern & Contemporary Art - Auction ends: April 15, 2026 from 3:00 pm

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Sean Scully - Watercolor
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Sean Scully
Unframed, 1996
Watercolor
Starting bid:
€ 7,200
Estimate:
€ 8,000 - 12,000
End: 04-15-26 15:00:00 Berlin
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2
Sean Scully
Unframed, 1996
Watercolor
Starting bid:
€ 7,200
Estimate:
€ 8,000 - 12,000
End: 04-15-26 15:00:00 Berlin
04-15-26 09:00:00 New York
04-15-26 06:00:00 Los Angeles (30 days, 15h:55m)

Please enter your maximum bid, it will only be used to the extent necessary to beat the next best bid.
Bid plus 34 % buyer's premium (differential taxation without separate VAT statement, sales tax certificate upon request) and droit de suite charge without VAT.
Self pick-up: free of charge,
insured shipping:
within Germany 71,54 €,
within the EU countries 119,77 €,
outside the EU countries on request.


After entering your maximum bid you will be able to check your entry and you will be provided with further information. Only after a further confirmation your bid will be binding.


Sean Scully
1945
Unframed. 1996.
Watercolor.
Signed, dated and inscribed "Unframed 24/50“ on the reverse. On firm wove paper. 20 x 14.8 cm (7.8 x 5.8 in), the full sheet.
[AM].
• Sean Scully creates thrilling works in a most simple pictorial language.
• Small size with great expressiveness.
• The year this watercolor was made, the artist's paper works were honored with a grand traveling exhibition with stops at, among others, the Museum Folkwang, Essen, the Denver Art Museum and the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich.

PROVENANCE: Auction for the beneift of ACRIA (AIDS Community Research Initiative of America) (1996).
Wolfryd.Selway Fine Art, Los Angeles.
Private collection (acquired from the above in 1998).

"I look at the way people patch things.“
Sean Scully, quoted from: Maria Müller et al (ed.), Sean Scully. Paintings, Pastels, Watercolors, Photographs, Düsseldorf 2001, p. 8.

In good condition. Upper right and lower edge slightly irregular, presumably in the work's nature. Each upper corner with a round hole, presumably from the making.