Ireland / France: Art & Literature
Ireland / France: Art & Literature
Michael Farrell
Un bistro chez la dame de l'autre savoir
Lot Closed
May 16, 01:41 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
Michael Farrell
1940 - 2000
Un bistro chez la dame de l'autre savoir
signed Michael Farrell and dated '83 (lower right); also titled (upper centre), variously dated (border edges) and inscribed Version III (lower left)
pencil and watercolour on paper
unframed: 79 by 119.5cm.; 31 by 47in.
framed: 96.5 by 137cm.; 38 by 54in.
Executed in 1983.
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Michael Farrell
1940 - 2000
Un bistro chez la dame de l'autre savoir
signé Michael Farrell et daté '83 (en bas à droite); également titré (en haut au centre), diversement daté (sur les bords) et inscrit Version III (en bas à gauche)
crayon et aquarelle sur papier
san cadre: 79 by 119.5cm.; 31 by 47in.
avec cadre: 96.5 by 137cm.; 38 by 54in.
Exécuté en 1983.
de Veres, Dublin, 17 May 2011, lot 27, where acquired by the present owner
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de Veres, Dublin, 17 mai 2011, lot 27, où acquise par le propriétaire actuel
Executed in 1983, the present work reflects a tumultuous period of instability in Farrell’s life. The artist had been struggling privately with his marriage and alcoholism, and also publicly with his finances for the best part of a decade. With an auto-biographical bent to much of his work, many of these anxieties break through in the composition. Executed with a free and vigorous hand, it reflects as much formally as it does thematically the sense of dissaray the artist experienced. The hat stand to the right is a recurring motif in his works of the period as is the Joyceian figure to the left (see also lot 26). Farrell identified with Joyce and his figure forms a notable presence in these works.