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Rita Duffy PRUA (b.1959)
Estimate:
€4,000 - €6,000
Sold
€8,000
Live Auction
Irish & International Art
Size
48 by 36in. (121.9 by 91.4cm)
Description
Title: MOTHER IRELAND, 1989
Note: This painting was a central image in my first solo exhibition after the completion of my MA and the birth of my first son. The central female figure has her arms filled with children and a smoothing iron worn as a head garment is firmly plugged into the church mains, removing any possibility of wrinkled thinking. Like most of my work it is personal and political, it stands as feminist comment on the lives Irish women lived and the prowling bishops who were intent on keeping it that way. This painting has been exhibited internationally and well documented as an important work in Irish contemporary art, sited by art historians' essays and reproduced in numerous publications.Rita DuffySeptember 2023
Frame size: 51 by 39in. (129.5 by 99.1cm)
Note: This painting was a central image in my first solo exhibition after the completion of my MA and the birth of my first son. The central female figure has her arms filled with children and a smoothing iron worn as a head garment is firmly plugged into the church mains, removing any possibility of wrinkled thinking. Like most of my work it is personal and political, it stands as feminist comment on the lives Irish women lived and the prowling bishops who were intent on keeping it that way. This painting has been exhibited internationally and well documented as an important work in Irish contemporary art, sited by art historians' essays and reproduced in numerous publications.Rita DuffySeptember 2023
Frame size: 51 by 39in. (129.5 by 99.1cm)
Condition
Excellent condition.
Medium
oil on panel
Signature
signed lower left; signed and titled on reverse; also with University of California Berkely Art Museum label on reverse
Literature
Steward, James Christen Ed., When Time Began to Rant and Rage: Figurative Painting from Twentieth-century Ireland, Merrell Holberton, London, catalogue no. 68, illustrated p. 259
Exhibited
'When Time Began to Rant and Rage: Figurative Painting from Twentieth-century Ireland', University of California Berkeley Art Museum, October 1998 through December 1999, catalogue no. 68
