IMPORTANT IRISH ART 3 MARCH 2025

90 65 Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) AN EVENINGWALK IN MARYLAND [DUBLIN], AFTER A POEM BY GERARD SMYTH, 2005 oil on canvas signed lower left; signed, titled and dated on reverse 18 by 21in. (45.7 by 53.3cm) Frame Size: 25.75 by 29in. (65.4 by 73.7cm) Provenance: RHA, “Rhyme and Resin”, auction held in aid of Poetry Ireland, 1 December 2005; Private collection; Whytes, 26 November 2007, lot 22; Private collection Maryland is a housing estate in The Liberties, Dublin, built by Dublin Corporation in1928-1932. This painting depicts nearby Steevens lane with Saint Patrick’s Hospital on the lfet and the Guinness Brewery on the right, with Luas tram tracks in the centre. An Evening Walk in Maryland When my father was a tired old man, his pride in the Republic gone, every evening he went for a walk in Maryland, stood by the canal or stopped at the dry fountain in James’s Street. By way of crumbling lane and convent wall, gothic spire and brewery chimney, he ambled as far as his last glimpse of the Liffey before it disappeared to appear again at Islandbridge and Chapelizod. When my father became a tired old man, coping with the scarcity of divine help, each night he emptied his pocket of its hoard of coins and his betting docket for the horse and jockey that tumbled in the final furlong. Gerard Smyth From The Mirror Tent, Dedalus Press, 2007 Maryland is a housing estate in The Liberties, Dublin, built by Dublin Corporation in 1928-1932. €10,000-€15,000 (£8,330-£12,500 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot65