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Sean Scully, b.1945

Brennus1979

Brennus is a 1979 work by Sean Scully. It is not currently on display in IMMA. It is part of the IMMA Permanent Collection.

Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	213.4 x 213.4 cm
Credit Line	IMMA Collection: Purchase, 2006
Item Number	IMMA.1969
Not on view
Tags	Painting 1979 Sean Scully

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Sean Scully, Brennus, 1979, Oil on canvas, 213.4 x 213.4 cm, Collection Irish Museum of Modern Art, Purchase, 2006

About the Artist

Sean Scully b.1945

Sean Scully was born in Dublin and raised in London. He moved to New York to undertake a graduate fellowship at Harvard in the early 1970s. Scully is now renowned worldwide for his adherence to the stripe in his expressionist painting. In the 1980s Scully loosened the precise grid-like style of his early works in favour of bold rough edged columns and panels of thickly applied paint. Scully was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1989 and 1993. He has exhibited extensively in Europe and the US and is represented in major public collections worldwide.

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