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Mexico VALLARTA

1984

Sean Scully

Associated Names

Sean Scully

Artist, American, born Ireland, 1945

The image shows a series of stacked rectangles and lines, organized into two vertical columns. The left column displays alternating teal and ochre rectangles. The right column features alternating maroon and black rectangles. Thin horizontal lines run between the two columns, connecting each set of colored bands.

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Artwork overview

Medium

watercolor and graphite on wove paper
Credit Line

Gift of Jane P. Watkins
Dimensions

sheet: 22.9 x 29.7 cm (9 x 11 11/16 in.)
Accession Number

2008.95.2
Copyright

© Sean Scully, Courtesy Galerie Lelong, New York

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Jane P. Watkins, Ketchum, ID; gift to NGA, 2008.

Associated Names

National Gallery of Art

Inscriptions

across bottom in graphite: Sean Scully / Mexico / VALLARTA / 12, 83; upper right in graphite: 51

Wikidata ID

Q64630669

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