'Sean Scully: A Retrospective' is the only book to cover Scully’s entire career, including work in all media – painting, photographs, prints, drawings and watercolours – from the early 1970s to the present.

Scully is one of the most important abstract painters alive today. Over the course of more than thirty years, he has produced a body of work that is widely collected and internationally exhibited. His signature style of lines or bands of colour alluding to architectural elements such as portals, windows and walls is instantly recognizable.

Published to accompany a major European exhibition tour, the texts in this volume position the artist in his rightful place within the traditions of earlier abstraction and of painting in general, while discussing the spiritual, emotional and very human nature of his art.

Danilo Eccher has been director of MACRO (Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma) since 2001. Lorand Hegyi, one of Europe’s foremost curators and art historians, is the director of the Musée d’Art Moderne of Saint-Etienne Métropole. Maria Lluïsa Borràs is an internationally renowned curator and art historian based in Barcelona. One of America’s most distinguished art critics, Donald Kuspit is Professor of Art and Philosophy at State University of New York at Stony Brook.