Ross Wilson (b.1957)
Poet of the Spanish Moons - Lorca

Oil on board, 20 x 12cm (8 x 4¾)
Signed with initials; inscribed with title and with personal inscription verso

 

Provenance: The...

Ross Wilson (b.1957)
Poet of the Spanish Moons - Lorca

Oil on board, 20 x 12cm (8 x 4¾)
Signed with initials; inscribed with title and with personal inscription verso

 

Provenance: The Eamonn Mallie Collection.

 

My art collecting was central to my life's journey. I fell in love with Spanish poet Garcia Lorca as a student in Abbey Grammar School, Newry only to continue this odyssey in Trinity College Dublin under the guidance of Professor Nigel Glendinning, an authority on Goya. Glendinning stimulated my interest in art as a student, choosing to lace his charming lectures on literature, with references to architecture, art, humour, satire, historical events, etc. Years later I learned from Coleraine based artist Ross Wilson that he had been commissioned to do a posthumous portrait of Lorca. His very reference to Lorca prompted me to start reciting the great man as I outlined my love affair with his work.

 

Some time later a parcel arrived to our home and within, rested this image of Garcia Lorca. I am sure all my TCD contemporaries and Lorca aficionados will rejoice in seeing this elegant portrait by Ross Wilson.

Eamonn Mallie

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