IRISH & INTERNATIONAL ART 9 MARCH 2026

73 IRISH & INTERNATIONAL ART · MONDAY 9 MARCH 2026 AT 6PM 51 Patrick Collins HRHA (1910-1994) MENHIRS oil on board signed lower right; titled and dated on Ritchie Hendriks Gallery label and with Apollo Gallery stamp on reverse 11.75 by 18in. (29.8 by 45.7cm) Frame Size: 16.75 by 22.75in. (42.5 by 57.8cm) Provenance: Ritchie Hendriks Gallery, Dublin, 1961; Collection of Sam Edgar; James Adam, Dublin, March 1986, lot 87; Private collection; Whyte’s, 20 September 2005, lot 103; with Apollo Gallery, Dublin; Private collection Exhibited: Ritchie Hendriks Gallery, Dublin, August 1961 Patrick Collins’ travels to Brittany, France, in the late 1950s influenced and inspired a new series of paintings depicting menhirs, large elongated Neolitic stones. Visiting the Carmac stones, one of Brittany’s largest megalithic sites, Collins, while in his Expressionist phase, painted the famous Celtic rocks with different approaches and angles each time. This new body of works was unveiled in his first one man show with the David Hendriks Gallery, in Dublin, in August 1961. €4,000-€6,000 (£3,480-£5,220 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot5 1