Lot 17
  • 17

Patrick Collins, H.R.H.A. 1911 - 1994

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
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Description

  • Patrick Collins, H.R.H.A.
  • Beyond the Bog
  • signed
  • oil on board
  • 90 by 120.5cm.; 35½ by 37½in.

Provenance

Tom Caldwell Gallery, Belfast

Exhibited

Dublin, Gallagher Gallery, Royal Hibernian Academy, Vincent and Noeleen Ferguson collection, January - March 1993. 

Catalogue Note

Before moving to Paris in 1971, Collins worked in Connemara for nine months digging ditches and produced a series of Bog pictures such as Bog Country (1970, Coll. Arts Council of Ireland). The palette for the series, evident in the present work, largely consists of yellows and browns which creates an earthy atmosphere producing a strong element of light from within the composition.