Maurice MacGonigal PRHA (1900-1979)
Dutch Barge, Hazelhatch
Oil on board, 40.5 x 50.5cm (16 x 20'')
Signed; signed again, inscribed with title and dated 1977 verso

Provenance: Important Irish...

Maurice MacGonigal PRHA (1900-1979)
Dutch Barge, Hazelhatch
Oil on board, 40.5 x 50.5cm (16 x 20'')
Signed; signed again, inscribed with title and dated 1977 verso

Provenance: Important Irish Art Sale these rooms June 2010, where purchased and thence by descent to the current owner.

 

The artist liked to paint the landscape along the Canal between Clonsilla & Hazelhatch due to the reflections of the water and its effect on the landscape; and the scale of human activity when seen against the canal locks, lockhouses and the humans in attendance on the craft afloat. The Dutch barge had been brought from Holland to ply along the canal and evoked for the artist his time as young man in Holland and the many colourful works he'd painted there when on an RDS scholarship in the late 1920s,and his introduction to that water laden landscape through the family of his fellow pupil Hilda van Stockhum.

 

Our thanks to Ciarán MacGonigal for his help cataloguing this lot.

 

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