Morgan O'Driscoll Irish & International Art Auction 21st October 2019

112 82 Mark Francis (b.1962) Untitled (1994) signed lower right and dated ‘94 water based oil paint on paper 78 x 78cm (30.7 x 30.7in) Provenance: Private Collection €2,500-3,500 (£2,212-3,097) In his increasingly well-regarded work, Mark Francis looks beyond the limits of normal vision, to the microscopic realm or to the macroscopic, from minute organic forms and processes to the broad reaches of outer space. Often, he implies the orderly structure of an underlying grid. Recalling laboratory microphotographs, many of his studies of teeming micro- organisms have a slightly ominous air as we are unsure of their implications: are they friends of foes?