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Hughie O’Donoghue ( b.1953)
ARISE AND GO, 2004/6
oil and gampi tissue on panel with photographic component
signed lower right; signed, inscribed [Prodigal Son Series] titled
and dated on reverse
29 by 25in. (73.66 by 63.50cm)
In spring of 2005 the Fenton Gallery, Cork hosted Hughie O’Donoghue’s
solo show, ‘Parable of The Prodigal Son’.The exhibition traced the fable
through a series of narrative panels of which this is one.The story told by
the artist was inspired by a set of plate negatives bought at a car-boot
sale.These photographs of unknown people fused with the artist’s own
imagined ideas of their lives, memories of his father and grandfather and
‘the muddy wastes of the Western Front’ fuse to form a collection of
contemplative multifaceted visual meditations.The artist describes his
creative processes for these panels as, “…a balance between action and
contemplation, the old alchemical division between laboratory and
library, only in my case the laboratory is a painting studio.”
€4,000-€6,000 (£3,400-£5,100 approx.)
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Michael Canning ( b.1971)
OVID, 2007
oil and wax on canvas laid on board
signed, titled and dated on reverse
27.50 by 20in. (69.85 by 50.80cm)
Provenance:
Waterhouse & Dodd Gallery, London;
Private collection
Exhibited:
Waterhouse Dodd Gallery, London, 2007
€2,000-€3,000 (£1,700-£2,600 approx.)