WHYTE'S ON-LINE SPRING ART SALE Monday 17 February

72 69 Robert Ballagh (b.1943) THE AMBIDEXTROUS PARADIGM and THE PLOUGH AND THE STARS, 1986 (A PAIR) silkscreen and etching on copper plate; (both nos. 60 from an edition of 286) each signed and dated lower right; numbered lower left 23 by 37in. (58.4 by 94cm) Provenance: Whyte’s, 28 September 2009, lot 140; Private collection Framed uniformly. Originally, these works formed part of a triptych entitled, Silicon Suite I, II & III (1986). James Gorry, in the exhibition catalogue for `Robert Ballagh - Works from the Studio 1959-2006’, describes these pieces as follows, “...Silicon Suite is a threefold meditation on the potentially destructive imbalance in Western Culture between science and creativity but also a reflection on Ireland’s contribution to Technology and Art. The Ambidextrous Paradigm (Suite III), whose somewhat tongue-in-cheek title alludes to the so called opposition of functions in the left and right of the human brain, ingeniously and provocatively juxtaposes images such as Einstein’s Head, a music sheet by Bach and a nuclear mushroom cloud seen at the end of a series of classical, piranesian arches.” €500-€700 (£420-£590 approx.) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid Lot 69