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

74 51 Charles Brady HRHA (1926-1997) Envelopes signed lower left oil on canvas 43 x 54.5cm (17 x 21.5in) Provenance: Private Collection €3,000-4,000 (£2,654-3,539) Charles Brady was a New Yorker. After wartime service in the navy, he studied painting and began to exhibit, but then found his way to Ireland in 1956 and settled. He became well known - and well liked, personally - for his small, impeccably judged compositions of single motifs, most famously envelopes, though he also liked landscape. His paintings have a Morandi-like quietness and, despite their modest scale, an air of monumentality. They are also witty plays on ideas of flatness and depth, as in this study of envelopes.