Untitled (5.22.87). 1987.
Watercolor over pencil.
Signed, dated and titled "5.22.87" lower right. On firm watercolor paper. 30.5 x 45.7 cm (12 x 17.9 in), size of sheet. [CH].


• A lively composition of bold colors and delicate, almost translucent watercolor wash.
• Scully's expressive watercolors were created as a separate group of works parallel to his large-format paintings.
Between the lines: here and there, a bright, sunny yellow shimmers between the red and black stripes.
• After relocating to the United States in 1975, Scully finally found his unique visual language in the 1980s.
Other watercolors from the 1980s are in the collections of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Albertina in Vienna.
• This year alone, Scully's works have been shown in solo museum shows at the Passerelle Centre d'art contemporain in Brest, the Ludwig Museum in Koblenz, the Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest, and The He Museum in Shunde, China.

PROVENANCE: David McKee Gallery, New York (on the frame with the gallery label).
Hannelore and Rudolph Schulhof Collection, New York (acquired from the above in 1989).
Private collection, New York (inherited from the above).
Meredith Harper Fine Art, New York.
Chara Schreyer Collection (acquired from the above in 2015).

LITERATURE: Alisa Carroll, Art House. The Collaboration of Chara Schreyer & Gary Hutton, New York 2016, pp. 36 and 218 (illustrated in color).