Dermot Seymour (b.1956)
Bell Hueys over Clew Bay (1984)
Oil on canvas, 91 x 120cm (35¾ x 47¼'')
Signed and dated (19)'84; signed and inscribed with title verso

This work was painted by Dermot...

Dermot Seymour (b.1956)
Bell Hueys over Clew Bay (1984)
Oil on canvas, 91 x 120cm (35¾ x 47¼'')
Signed and dated (19)'84; signed and inscribed with title verso

This work was painted by Dermot Seymour while he still lived in Belfast, after a trip to Mayo, where he now lives with fellow artist Alice Maher. The artist has said he was "just articulating an iconography of the world around me,

an exploration of a seemingly absurd world at the time in the North, the Middle East Iran etc.. The model for the work is his friend and fellow artist Colin McGookin who is painted twice at either side of a fencing pole inscribed

'Brits Out wearing the Red hand of Ulster on one side and The Easter Lily on the other. Similar works to this have been shown internationally including in the exhibition On the Balcony of a Nation which toured to several cities

in The United States in 1990 and more recently in Art of The Troubles Exhibition in The Ulster Museum .

We thank the artist for his help cataloguing this lot.

 

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