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Hughie O'Donoghue
B.1953
MAN WITH A BANDAGED HEAD
Quantity: 3
each signed, titled, dated 2009 and individually numbered I, II and III
oil on canvas laid on board
each 43 by 35.5cm., 17 by 14in.
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each signed, titled, dated 2009 and individually numbered I, II and III
oil on canvas laid on board
each 43 by 35.5cm., 17 by 14in.
Provenance
James Hyman Gallery, London, where purchased by the present owner in 2010
Catalogue Note
‘O’Donoghue sees Van Gogh as a model for a way to escape the post-modern attitude to art-making, obsessed by appropriation and irony. “Van Gogh’s journey, which is striving for some sort of truth, is the absolute opposite of irony”. As a young artist, O’Donoghue found Van Gogh a vital role –model.’
Martin Gayford, Hughie O’Donoghue: Scorched Earth, Marlborough Fine Art, 2018, p.11
The subject of these charged, psychological portraits is Vincent Van Gogh - a theme which Hughie O'Donoghue has worked on over many years and was the subject of his most recent exhibition, Scorched Earth, at the Marlborough Gallery, London, March - April 2018.
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