Important Irish Art 30 November 2015

Patrick Graham (b.1943)

UNTITLED [COLLATERAL SERIES], 2003/2004

watercolour over pencil with collage element

indistinctly signed and dated on figure’s shoulder upper right

31 x 43_in. (78.74 x 110.49cm)

Boyle Arts Festival, 2006;Private collection

In 2005 Patrick Graham showed Collateral Series in the Hillsboro Fine Art Gallery, Dublin, an exhibition which comprised

raw and beautiful drawings pieced together out of sketches. The present work falls into this body of work which

had formed the basis of other earlier shows with; the Green on Red Gallery, the RHA, the Civic Theatre and the Jack

Rutberg Gallery in Los Angeles. In his review of the exhibition for Circa Art Magazine (27 October 2005) Thomas Brezing

described the series thus:

This work looks like it has been stitched together after a high number of long nights

filled with vivid dreams. It is as if he [Graham] had been sleeping with pen and paper beside him, scribbling and jotting

things down in the dark after every dream that woke him, and then the next day trying to make sense of it all by putting

the jigsaw together.””

€1500-€2000 (£1080-£1440 approx.)

IMPORTANT IRISH ART · 30 November 2015