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I RISH & INTERNATIONAL ART AUCTION
M ONDAY 10TH APRIL 2017 AT 6.00PM
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signed lower left
mixed media on card
38 x 58cm (15 x 23in)
3URYHQDQFH Purdy Hicks Gallery, London;
Nicholas Gallery, Belfast (label verso);
Private Collection
€3,000-5,000 (£2,608-4,347)
Although born in Manchester, as was his father, Hughie O’Donoghue is considered to be an Irish artist, not least by
himself. Born of an Irish mother and of Irish descent on his father’s side, he spent much of his childhood in County Mayo.
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an approach that is said to demonstrate the respect he has in his own practice for the history of art. His method is derived
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in his paintings by being melded, either through his treatment in scale and pigment or through more explicit content.
O’Donoghue was elected as a member of the Royal Academy in 2009 and is considered one of the leading painters of his
generation; he was recently selected to design windows for the Henry V11, Lady Chapel, at Westminster Abbey.