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Carmel Mooney

POOL OF FIRE

oil on canvas

signed lower left and right; with Liam Slattery

framing label on reverse

24 by 24in. (60.96 by 60.96cm)

Born in Kilkenny, Carmel Mooney studied at the National

College of Art & Design and later University College

Dublin where she holds a Diploma in the History of

European Painting.

Carmel Mooney had her first solo exhibition at the

Lincoln Gallery, Dublin, in 1983. A lecturer in the History

of Painting, she was also Artistic Director at Daon Scoil,

An Daingean, from 1981 to 1991.

In 1989 she spent time at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre at

Annaghmakerrig, Co Monaghan, concentrating on

strengthening the structure of her painterly work, in

particular the role of line. A year later a visit to Lanzarote

introduced her to its volcanic landscape, and she

subsequently returned many times to work there.These

two events proved a significant turning point in the

development of her work and heralded the introduction

of her volcanic series of paintings, first shown at an

exhibition in Dublin in 1993. A fascination with volcanoes

has also taken her regularly to the still active Mount Etna

in Sicily. She is a member of l’Association Volcanologique

Européenne.The present work is an example of her much

admired Volcanic Series.

800-

1,200 (£640-£960 approx)

87

James Dixon (1887-1970)

MAGGIE THE COWS ARE IN THE CLOVER GO AND DRIVE THEM MAGGIE

TO THE OLD RED BARN, TORY ISLAND, 1968

oil on paper

signed, dated [16.06.1968] and inscribed lower right

22 by 29.5in. (55.88 by 74.93cm)

Provenance:

Purchased from artist through Derek Hill, 1967;

Private collection

The Irish artist and primitive landscape painter James Dixon was born on Tory

Island, County Donegal, and aside from the occasional visit to the mainland,

remained on the island all his life. He devoted himself to fishing and small

farming. He only started painting at the age of 72, after seeing a painter - Derek

Hill - at work on a landscape painting. Hill encouraged Dixon and provided him

with oils and other art materials, although Dixon made his own paintbrushes

from donkey’s hair. In due course it was Hill who introduced Dixon’s artworks to

the art world, thus helping Dixon to become an important figure in the history

of twentieth-century Irish painting. His painting is seen as an excellent example

of Outsider Art, and was the subject of a major exhibition at The Irish Museum

of Modern Art - Two Painters: Alfred Wallis and James Dixon, IMMA, Dublin,

September - November 1999.

3,000-

5,000 (£2,400-£4,000 approx)