ADAM'S - IMPORTANT IRISH ART, WEDNESDAY 29TH MARCH 2017 (Click Lot title for more images and to Place Bid)

Oil on board, 44 x 48cm (17¼ x 18¾’’)

Signed

Provenance: With the Tom Caldwell Gallery, Belfast, Catalogue No.17, where purchased by current owner.

€ 4,000 - 5,000

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 Guggenheim 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 Gallery, 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 Aosdóna the

following year. His works can be found in the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery, Crawford Municipal

Gallery,Cork and The Ulster Museum.