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Dutch Barge, Hazelhatch
Oil on board, 40.5 x 50.5cm (16 x 20’’)
Signed; signed again, inscribed with title and dated 1977 verso
Provenance: Important Irish Art Sale these rooms June 2010, where purchased and
thence by descent to the current owner.
The artist liked to paint the landscape along the Canal between Clonsilla & Hazelhatch due to the reflections of
the water and its effect on the landscape; and the scale of human activity when seen against the canal locks,
lockhouses and the humans in attendance on the craft afloat. The Dutch barge had been brought from Holland
to ply along the canal and evoked for the artist his time as young man in Holland and the many colourful works
he’d painted there when on an RDS scholarship in the late 1920s,and his introduction to that water laden
landscape through the family of his fellow pupil Hilda van Stockhum.
Our thanks to Ciarán MacGonigal for his help in cataloguing this lot.
€ 1,200 - 1,600