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14 Sean McSweeney HRHA (b.1935) Shoreline Bog (1992)signed & dated ‘92 lower left, titled & dated on reverse
oil on canvas
35.70 x 46cm (14 x 18in)
Provenance:
Private Collection
€3,000-5,000 (£2,608-4,347)
Sean McSweeney was born in Dublin in 1935. From 1965 he began to exhibit regularly in the Dawson Gallery, Dublin. He was
elected a member of Aosdána in 1984. His work can be found in many public collections such as Dublin City Gallery The Hugh
Lane; Trinity College, Dublin; Sligo Museum & Art Gallery; Ulster Museum and Dublin City University. Major retrospective
exhibitions include; Retrospective 1965-1990 at the Galway Arts Festival and RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin in 1990, Seán Mc-
Sweeney-Retrospective in the Model Arts and Niland Gallery, Sligo, the Triskel Arts Centre, Cork and the Solstice Arts Centre,
Navan in 2007. He has represented Ireland abroad on many occasions including the Sense of Ireland Festival, London and in 1980
at the 1985 Festival of Painting at Cagnes-sur-Mer, France. McSweeney resides with his family at his mother’s birthplace of Bal-
lyconnell in Co. Sligo where he has lived and worked for many years. Much like Jack Yeats before him, McSweeney has made the
West and its various landscapes and seascapes his own.