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Oil on board, 46 x 60 cm (18 x 23½”)
Signed
Provenance: Ritchie Hendriks Gallery where purchased by Sir Basil Goulding
Exhibited: “One Mans Meat” - The Collection of Sir Basil Goulding The Municipal
Gallery, Dublin December 1961 Cat. No. 7
Patrick Collins was a self taught artist, aside from the evening classes he took at the
National College of Art while working for an insurance company. In the 1940s he took
a tower in Howth Castle as his home and it fast became a meeting place for a select
group of artists and writers. Collins flourished within this cultural circle and by 1950 he
had begun exhibiting at the Irish Exhibition of Living Art. In 1958 his Liffey Quayside,
now housed in the National Gallery of Ireland, won the National Award at the Guggen-
heim International Show in New York. Five years later his work appeared again in New
York when he was one of twelve artists in a group show organised by the Arts Council,
Dublin. In the interim a solo show was held of Collins’ work at the Ritchie Hendriks Gal-
lery, and he had begun to exhibit at the RHA. Following the success of these shows his
work was included at the Oireachtas Art Exhibition, The Arts Council of Belfast and the
Mercury Gallery in London, as well as solo shows at David Hendriks and Tom Caldwell
Galleries in Dublin and Belfast. In 1980 Collins was elected HRHA and a member of
Aosdána the following year. His works can be found in the Irish Museum of Modern Art,
Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery, Crawford Municipal Gallery and Ulster Museum.
Sir Basil Goulding bought a number of his works in the 1950’s and 1960’s some of
which we have offered over the years . This a good early example of the artists work.
Collins exhibited with the Hendriks Gallery from there first exhibitions in 1956, the year
this work was painted.
€5,000 - €7,000