Paddy McCann (b.1963)

Girl's Head

Oil on canvas, 27 x 21.5cm (10½ x 8½)

 

Provenance: Provenance: The Eamonn Mallie Collection
Emer Gallery label verso.

 

The minute I spotted 'Girl's...

Paddy McCann (b.1963)

Girl's Head

Oil on canvas, 27 x 21.5cm (10½ x 8½)

 

Provenance: Provenance: The Eamonn Mallie Collection
Emer Gallery label verso.

 

The minute I spotted 'Girl's Head' I knew I had to have it. It reminded me of a beautiful continental sunset....emitting a light and a heat informed by colours and shapes. However abstract in structure, however geometric, there was something beguiling about the expression in the female's face - mystery and beauty - everything that was missing from so many of Picasso's female heads. I always link beauty, romance and love.

 

This little head had and has it all for me. No one ever said it to me but I suspect the painting was inspired by Paddy's beautiful wife Sharon, also an artist, to whom the artist visited a wonderful abstract European treatment to win his goddess in paint.

 

When asked "is this is your wife Sharon?" McCann answered ever modest "well - it's too pretty to be a self portrait."

Eamonn Mallie

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