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2 Patrick Collins RHA (1911-1994) BIRD BATH ON THE LAWN (1977)signed lower right & dated ‘77
oil on canvas
48.5 x 46cm (19 x 18in)
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Tom Caldwell Gallery, Belfast (label verso);
Oriel Gallery, Dublin 1992;
Collection of Finbarr & Moyra O’Donovan
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Patrick Collins Retrospective Exhibition, Dublin, Cork and Belfast 1982: No.78.
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Patrick Collins by Frances Ruane: page 94 (illustrated)
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Patrick Collins was born in Sligo in 1911. After leaving school, he worked for twenty years for an insurance company in Dublin,
attending evening classes at NCAD, and studying life drawing under George Collie. By 1945, Collins became a full-time artist. He
drew enormous strength and inspiration from the Irish landscape and its people. His grey-blue abstract landscape painting evoked
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Ritchie Hendriks Gallery in Dublin, displaying 30 paintings. He was elected HRHA (Honorary Council of the Royal Hibernian
Academy) in 1980 and a member of Aosdána in 1981 and had a major retrospective exhibition by the Irish Arts Council (Cork,
Belfast, Dublin) in 1982. Several solo exhibitions followed, including a Retrospective at Sligo Art Gallery in 1985. Two years
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contribution to the visual arts in Ireland. In 1988 he received an Honorary Doctorate of Literature from Trinity College, Dublin.
His paintings have been exhibited widely in Ireland and in Europe, and are held in many public and private collections worldwide.