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

63 IRISH & INTERNATIONAL ART · 27 SEPTEMBER 2021 AT 6PM painting and had work accepted by the Irish Exhibition of Living Art. His first, very successful solo show at Ritchie Hendriks Gallery came in 1956. A quintessentially Irish artist, from early on his painting seems to evoke an Ireland both mythical and real, romanticised but rigorously unsentimental. Isolated subjects - from human figures to dwellings, fields to birds - emerge as if from a primordeal mist, stubbornly asserting themselves. A painting can visualise a whole world. A private, even reclusive man, Collins almost shunned publicity during his lifetime but has long been recognised as a central figure in 20th century Irish art. €10,000-€15,000 (£8,550-£12,820 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot43