WHYTE'S IMPORTANT IRISH ART Monday 11 March 2024 at 6pm

142 107 Rory Breslin (b.1963) NOVEMBER MASK bronze; (no. 1 from an edition of 3) signed and numbered upper left 25 by 15 by 9.50in. (63.5 by 38.1 by 24.1cm) From the Clew Bay Series, which chronicles and celebrates the emergence of native flora and fauna as they appear by month in the Co. Mayo bay area, The November Mask is pensive and reflective. Eyes downcast and contemplating, the visage is reflective of Samhain, the beginning of the new Celtic year. The liminal or threshold festival, when the boundary between this world and the Otherworld thinned. With an abundance of energy two grey herons, guardians of the treasures of the otherworld in Irish mythology, swoop down to haggle over a fish. Wings akimbo and necks outstretched they frame the subdued face of the youth. Enveloped within the birds from below the chin up are creeping ivy, cones of the Scots pine and on either side of the temples shaggy inkcap mushrooms. Dapperling mushrooms and ivy on either side soften the vigorous thrust of the birds. €4,000-€6,000 (£3,420-£5,130 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot107