WHYTE'S IMPORTANT IRISH ART 28 November 2022 at 6pm

54 29 Arthur Armstrong RHA (1924-1996) EBB TIDE oil on board signed lower left; titled and numbered [29] on reverse 24 by 30in. (61 by 76.2cm) Frame Size: 29.5 by 35.5in. (74.9 by 90.2cm) Provenance: Whyte’s, 26 April 2005, lot 24; Private collection Exhibired: Thought to have been exhibited at, ‘Further Aspects of Landscape: Exhibition of Paintings by Arthur Armstrong’, Gallery 22, Dublin, 6-23 May 1980, as catalogue no. 16 Throughout the late 1960s and 1970s Armstrong painted at least four works titled Ebb-Tide. The present example is most likely the last in that series, exhibited in 1980 at Gallery 22 on St Stephen’s Green. In reviewing this show, Desmond MacAvock noted that “all the paintings are of the rocky foreshore of the sea. Sometimes the view is across a bay with a hill on the far shore, but usually the subject is the pools and seaweed-festooned rocks weaving across the sands towards the distant sea” (Irish Times, 12 May 1980). He also noted the earthy palette of the works in that show - “browns, dark blues, sands coloured by the setting sun” - all of which aptly describes the present work. €2,500-€3,500 (£2,160-£3,020 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot29