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Charles Brady HRHA (1926-1997)
Haycock
Oil on canvas, 43 x 38cm (17 x 15”)
Signed, also signed verso on backing board
Provenance: Babcock Gallery, New York
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Patrick Collins HRHA (1911-1994)
Lake Siren
Oil on board, 29.5 x 59.5cm (11" x 23"”)
Signed
Provenance: !e collection of the poet John Montague and his
wife Evelyn
Exhibited:
Patrick Collins Exhibition
David Hendriks Gallery
Dublin May/June 1968 Cat. No. 22
Patrick Collins Exhibition
David Hendriks at!e Cork Arts So-
ciety March 1973 Cat. No. 15
Frances Ruane in her 1982 monograph on Patrick Collins de-
scribed his time in Paris :- “!e familiar characterisation of an
artist drinking and starving in a squalid Parisian garret was too
uncomfortably true-to-life to be romantic. Collins often recalls
how he lived at the point of near starvation, of having to stay in
bed because he lacked the strength to walk. He frequently tells
how he would walk nearly four miles across Paris to visit the
poet John Montague hoping he would be home to give him a
meal”. Perhaps we should leave it to Evelyn Montague to tell
us of these times in her own words :-
“I believe
Lake Siren
was painted around 1968 a date just be-
fore Patrick Collins life and mine coincided in Paris. I was liv-
ing in the latter, my native city, the enviable state of a working
young woman with her own >at on the le? bank; I was also
at that time being courted by John Montague, my future hus-
band, through whom I met Patrick. John wrote a poem about
Patrick called “Wind Harp”.
As I gathered, Patrick was in Paris to challenge himself into
becoming a hobo living penniless, surrounded by the vibrant
visual art scene that Paris was still following in the release of
energy from the 1968 riots. For Patrick that meant living in
