Adam's Important Irish Art & Irish Historical Documents December 2016 : Click Lot Title for More Info

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Important Irish Art | 7th December 2016

Bungowla, Inishmór, Aran

Oil on board, 61 x 71cm (24 x 28’’)

Signed; signed again, inscribed with title and dated (19)’76 verso

Provenance: Important Irish Art Sale these rooms June 2010, where purchased and

thence by descent to the current owner.

Bungowla (Bungabhla,’’bottom of the fork’’) the westernmost village of the island of Inis Mór, is a series of jagged

striations of stone, with a long sloping launching place for the Currachs so typical of the Western Seas and the

upturned craft form the dramatic counterpoint to the landscape; and the diagonals of the evening skies over the

Island and the fisherman trying to judge the kind of weather which would enable them to take to the seas in safety.

Our thanks to Ciarán MacGonigal for his help in cataloguing this lot.

€ 5,000 - 7,000