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Thomas Ryan PPRHA (b.1929)
Starting Bid: €2,400
Estimate:
€3,000 - €4,000
Ended
Timed Auction
The Eclectic Collector - Part One
Size
16 by 12in. (40.6 by 30.5cm)
Description
Description: 1916 RISING LEADERS (SET OF 7) photographic element heightened with white; each signed and titled lower right
Note: History paintings form part of a lesser known area of Ryan's practice. The subjects are often of important Irish interest, folklore or mythology. Of these paintings the artist notes, The impulse to do [them] is of a different kind to that of wanting to paint, say, a landscape. That particular urge is almost always motivated by a reaction to a new view... Painting history is a slower process. It derives from a shared awareness of a historical event or a remembered story from an ancient saga that triggers the impulse. A potent legend and one of consequence to the country, North and South is the still strongly felt effect of 'The Flight of the Earls' and the more recent 'Easter Rising, G.P.O., 1916' shown at 'Cuimhneachán 1916', Taispeántas Ealaíne i gComóradh Éirí Amach na Cásca, 1916', Municipal Gallery of Art, Dublin, 12 Aibreán - 24 Bealtaine 1966, no. 50. The artist's poignant scene on canvas showing the rebels defending the G.P.O. is illustrated in Thomas Ryan Oil Paintings, Nicholson & Bass, 2009, p.82-83.For an example of another work shown at 'Cuimhneachán 1916', the 1966 Golden Jubilee exhibition see lot 126 by Brett McEntagart."
Note: History paintings form part of a lesser known area of Ryan's practice. The subjects are often of important Irish interest, folklore or mythology. Of these paintings the artist notes, The impulse to do [them] is of a different kind to that of wanting to paint, say, a landscape. That particular urge is almost always motivated by a reaction to a new view... Painting history is a slower process. It derives from a shared awareness of a historical event or a remembered story from an ancient saga that triggers the impulse. A potent legend and one of consequence to the country, North and South is the still strongly felt effect of 'The Flight of the Earls' and the more recent 'Easter Rising, G.P.O., 1916' shown at 'Cuimhneachán 1916', Taispeántas Ealaíne i gComóradh Éirí Amach na Cásca, 1916', Municipal Gallery of Art, Dublin, 12 Aibreán - 24 Bealtaine 1966, no. 50. The artist's poignant scene on canvas showing the rebels defending the G.P.O. is illustrated in Thomas Ryan Oil Paintings, Nicholson & Bass, 2009, p.82-83.For an example of another work shown at 'Cuimhneachán 1916', the 1966 Golden Jubilee exhibition see lot 126 by Brett McEntagart."
Condition
Excellent condition.
