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The painting, on a shaped five-sided polygonal canvas, is non-representational. The composition is formed of parallel bands of pale ivory colour, with some red and blue bands also, laid one on top of the other, in a criss-cross diagonal pattern. The underlying background colours vary from red, to yellow to green. The composition is 'hard-edged abstraction' in style. It is also illusionistic, in th…
Creator
- Sean Scully
- Sean Scully
Subject
- Hard Edged Abstraction; Illusionistic; trompe l'oeil; pattern; diagonal; criss-cross; Modernism
- Hard-edge
Type of item
- paintings (visual works)
Medium
- Acrylic on canvas
- canvas (textile material)
- canvas (textile material)
Creator
- Sean Scully
- Sean Scully
Subject
- Hard Edged Abstraction; Illusionistic; trompe l'oeil; pattern; diagonal; criss-cross; Modernism
- Hard-edge
Type of item
- paintings (visual works)
Medium
- Acrylic on canvas
- canvas (textile material)
- canvas (textile material)
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Creation date
- 1973
- 1973
Current location
- Crawford Art Gallery
Provenance
- Purchased privately from the Rowan Gallery, London, 1973 and donated to the Crawford Art Gallery c. 1974.
Identifier
- IRE_280_009
Extent
- 216.0 x 254.0 cm
Language
- en
- eng
Relations
- http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21727692
Year
- 1973
Providing country
- Ireland
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2016-03-03T15:53:04.484Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2019-11-15T13:26:06.240Z