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

114 84 Pat Harris (b.1953) Quince I (2007) signed and dated 2007 on lower stretcher oil on linen 60 x 75cm (23.5 x 29.5in) Provenance: Private Collection €1,500-2,000 (£1,327-1,769) Beginning as a portrait and figure painter, Pat Harris subsequently came around to landscape - encouraged by Sean McSweeney - and still life. An important enduring influence is Charles Brady, who was his teacher and friend. Witness the example of Brady’s still lifes of humble, everyday items - a comb, an envelope. Harris went on to study and then teach in Belgium, and Luy Tuymans may have influenced his growing interest in painting not so much things as their traces, echoes, residues in beautifully judged works with a subtle sense of colour and form. He thinks of his paintings of individual fruits as portraits of a sort.

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