Irish & International Art 10th April 2017 : Click Lot Title for More info & Pictures.

signed, titled & dated on reverse ‘69

acrylic on canvas

61 x 122cm (24 x 48in)

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Private Collection

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Axiom Gallery, London: 15th January - 8th February 1969

€5,000-7,000 (£4,347-6,086)

This series was inspired by Farrell living at Bayswater Terrace, Sandycove. In 1968, Gerry Walker

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the tips of the waves, and the seagulls as they swept in from the sea to alight on the beach.

At the Irish Exhibition of Living Art in 1969, Farrell’s entry was Sandycove Series #10 and it

won him, for the second time, the Carroll Prize. Brian Fallon of the Irish Times commented

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hard-edge paintings vacuous and mechanical but this had more formal tension, subtler colour and

greater invention than I remember in his previous works.’

The adjudicator of the exhibition commented: ‘It stands up to international standards, yet it seems

to possess a distinctly Irish quality. One feels that the artist is drawing on his native roots while

responding to universal concerns.’