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Oil on board, 51 x 61cm (20 x 24”)
Signed, also signed, inscribed and dated verso
Exhibited: Taylor Galleries Dublin, 1978
€3,000 - 5,000
Oil on board, 60 x 70cm (23½ x 27½”)
Signed
Provenance: Fr. Donal Cregan
Exhibited: The Dawson Gallery, Dublin
Maurice MacGonigal was apprenticed to Harry Clarke’s glass studio in his hometown of Dublin at the age of fifteen. Politically active in his youth, he took part in the 1916 Rising
the following year and spent two years in Kilmainham Gaol. When released from internment in 1922, MacGonigal returned to the Harry Clarke studio before moving to the
Metropolitan School of Art where he studied painting under Seán Keating, Patrick Tuohy and James Sinton Sleator. He subsequently taught at the school for over thirty years
(later the National College of Art) and became professor of painting. Elected a full member of the RHA in 1950, he succeeded his former tutor Sean Keating as president of the
academy in 1962, retaining the position until two years before his death. As well as exhibiting at the RHA he showed regularly at the Dawson and Taylor Galleries, and in 1991 a
posthumous retrospective was held at the Hugh Lane. MacGonigal was known not only for his painting but also his set designs for the Abbey Theatre, book illustrations, posters
for the Irish Army and a mural he produced in 1939 for the New York World’s Fair. His works can be found in the collections of the National Gallery of Ireland, Hugh Lane, Craw-
ford Gallery and Ulster Museum.
€4,000 - 6,000