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92 65 Tony O’Malley HRHA (1913-2003) GARDEN IMPRESSION, PARADISE ISLAND, BAHAMAS, 1981 acrylic on canvas signed, titled and dated [Jan] on reverse 60 by 48in. (152.4 by 121.9cm) Frame Dimensions: 70 by 58in. (177.8 by 147.3cm) Excellent condition. Provenance: Adam’s, 5 December 2006, lot 63; Private collection; Morgan O’Driscoll, 20 February 2012, lot 50; Private collection In 1973 Tony O’Malley married Jane Harris whose family was from the Bahamas. From 1973 to 1987 the couple painted there during the winter months. The Caribbean light and the island’s colours had an enormous impact on the artist’s palette. This radically different environment charged O’Malley’s canvases with a buoyancy and lightness which extended to a renewed interpretation of both his Irish landscapes and those of the Canary Islands and Scilly Isles. The Bahamian works were also hugely important in terms of his career development and opened doors to commercial galleries in Ireland and abroad. In 1989 the artist was made an Honorary member of the Royal Hibernian Academy and won the Guardian Art Critic’s award for painting at the Newlyn Contemporaries Exhibition as well as the Irish American Cultural Award for painting. By 1990 Jane and Tony O’Malley had returned to Ireland to settle permanently near the artist’s birthplace in Callan, County Kilkenny. €40,000-€60,000 (£34,480-£51,720 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot65