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Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956)
Estimate:
€25,000 - €35,000
Sold
€25,000
Live Auction
Important Irish Art
Size
31.50 by 39.50in. (80 by 100.3cm)
Description
Title: EVENING SHORELINE
Note: A really fine example of a subject that Donald Teskey began to explore in the latter half of the 1990s and at which he came to excel. He began as a draughtsman of exceptional skill, conjuring anomalous, gritty urban spaces subtly infused with a sense of the uncanny or unsettling, with scraps of paper suspended on gusts of wind. That was in Limerick, where he studied at LSAD. When he moved to Dublin, he continued to draw, developing those cryptic scraps into allegories of emotional life in images of acrobats in flight and, as he explored his surroundings, sweeping, vertiginous views of the dramatic topography around Milltown.When he set about painting he ventured further afield again, envisaging areas of the city, including the industrial tracts of Dublin 8, as windswept urban landscapes, with streets as valleys, canals as rivers. In retrospect, his venturing west, into the coastal landscape dominated by the Atlantic, was logical. In practice, the catalyst was an invitation to work at the Ballinglen Art Foundation in Ballycastle, North Mayo, with a magnificent coastline on the doorstep.Often, in his paintings, he considers the habitable, constructed fabric of houses, towns, harbours, on the ocean's edge, but increasingly he also addressed a pared-down world: the tide driven ocean, the scoured rocky coast, distant headlands and ever-changing skies. Over time he's become impressively expert at broaching these elements, and their fierce interaction, in boldly managed paint. The tremendous verve and freedom of his method is never just for show, rather it is perfectly matched to the character and detail of the subject.Aidan Dunne
Frame dimensions: 34 by 42in. (86.4 by 106.7cm)
Condition
Excellent condition.
Medium
oil on canvas
Signature
signed on reverse (concealed by frame)
Provenance
Whyte's, 6 June 2022, lot 83;Private collection