WHYTES
SINCE 1783
,
58
90
Robert Ballagh (
b.
1943)
DOLMEN, ‘POL NA BRON’, COUNTY CLARE
oil on canvas
signed lower right
24 by 48in. (60.96 by 121.92cm)
In the artist’s hand painted frame.
The present work belongs to a series of paintings used as backdrop
projections on the
Riverdance
set. Ballagh would revisit the theme of Irish
landscape painting again in the early 2000s. In Ciaran Carty’s text
Robert
Ballagh, Citizen Artist
(2010) the author describes Ballagh’s landscapes as,
“…generic rather than specific, apart from a few references to the
Poolnabrone dolmen or the fort at Aileach in Donegal.They lack the aura
of time and place that landscape paintings traditionally evoke… their
purpose is more elemental. ‘My intention was to engage with something
more mythical and symbolic than simply the picturesque.’ [Ballagh] ”
(Carty, p.99)
€
3,000-
€
4,000 (£2,560-£3,420 approx.)
91
Maria Simonds-Gooding ARHA
(
b.
1939)
CLIFF DWELLING
carborundum print (no. 5 from an edition of 50)
signed in pencil lower right; titled centre; numbered
lower left; with inscribed Graphic Studio [Dublin]
label on reverse
24 by 32in. (60.96 by 81.28cm)
€
400-
€
600 (£340-£510 approx.)
92
Gilbert Swimberghe (Belgian,
b.
1927)
UNTITLED, 1987
oil on canvas
signed and dated in pencil lower left; with inscribed Oliver
Dowling Gallery exhibition label on reverse
12 by 12in. (30.48 by 30.48cm)
Provenance:
Oliver Dowling Gallery, Dublin;
Where purchased by the current owner
Exhibited:
‘Gilbert Swimberghe’, Oliver Dowling Gallery, Dublin,
6-21 November 1987, exhibition no. 7
€
300-
€
500 (£260-£430 approx.)
