24 by 30in. (61 by 76.2cm)

Title: EBB TIDE
Frame dimensions: 29.5 by 35.5in. (74.9 by 90.2cm)
Note: 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.

This work appears to be in very good condition. Some surface dirt visible. One slight scratch visible on very close inspection lower left.

oil on board