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126 Cecil Maguire RHA RUA (b.1930)
Pony Show Roundstone, Connemara
Oil on board, 55.5 x 65.5cm (21.75 x 25.75”)
Signed, dated ‘07 and inscribed with title verso. Royal Ulster Academy label verso.
Born in Lurgan in 1930, Maguire graduated from the Queen’s University Belfast in 1951. He then
took an English teaching post at Lurgan College. He became a member of the Royal Ulster Academy
in 1974, winning both the Silver Medal (1964, 1967) and the Gold Medal there (1993).
In 1971 he began exhibiting at the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin and between 1982 and 1992
he exhibited at the Oriel Gallery in Dublin in a series of solo exhibitions.
In 1981 he retired from teaching at Lurgan College to concentrate on painting and travelling. Magu-
ire now divides his time between Italy, Belfast and the West of Ireland but lives and works for a great
part of the year in Roundstone, Connemara - an area that has always been the inspiration for much of
his work. Traditional horse fairs of the West also have captivated the artist as can be seen in the two
fine examples here.
€3,000 - 5,000