WHYTE'S IRISH & INTERNATIONAL ART 27th September 2021 at 6pm

33 IRISH & INTERNATIONAL ART · 27 SEPTEMBER 2021 AT 6PM Maurice MacGonigal remained a ‘Plein Air’ painter all his life. But this early, and historic work, is indicative of his pictorial interests and his sense of colour. Despite its age it remains a lively colourful and evocative sense of a summer’s day. Its mood is optimistic, on a late June day or even early July of 1921, as the Truce negotiations with the British Government were soon to be concluded (11 July 1921) with the release of the internees expected thereafter. How or where the artist managed to acquire pigments, brushes and paper/canvas is not known so far. One presumes the Clarke Studio could provide, however limited, such things with the commanding officer’s permission (Colonel Hely-Hutchinson of Knocklofty, Co.Tipperary). Even after a century the work has a life and charm so typical of the artist’s hand and eye ‘en plein air’. Ciarán MacGonigal, September 2021 €5,000-€7,000 (£4,270-£5,980 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot21