ADAM'S - Important Irish Art Auction - 31st May 2017 (Click Lot title for more images and to Place Bid)

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Mixed media, 87 x 69cm (34¼ x 27¼’’)

Signed and dated 1952

Patrick Pye was born in England but grew up in Dublin. He started painting in 1943 under the

sculptor Oisin Kelly, and later studied at the National College of Art. In 1957 he won the Mainie

Jellett Scholarship, which enabled him to travel extensively in Europe. It was while on visit to

the National Museum in Barcelona that he became influenced by Romanesque Catalan art, and

this turned his attention to Christian iconography. He also studied stained glass at the Jan Van

Eyck Academy in Holland under Alberrt Troost.

Patrick Pye has completed many major commissions on religious themes, including those at

Glenstal Abbey, Co. Limerick; Church of the Ressurrection, Belfast; Convent of Mercy, Cook-

stown, Co.Tyrone; and Fossa chapel, Killarney. A triptych illustrating man’s expulsion from the

Garden of Eden hangs at Bank of Ireland headquaters on Baggot Street in Dublin, and he made

the Stations of the Cross for Ballycasheen church in Killarney.

Pye’s faith has provided an underlying context for most of his work, although this is not always

evident. In 2005 Pye was awarded a D.Phil by Maynooth University. He is founding member of

Aosdana, of which he became a member in 1981. He lives and works in Tallaght, Dublin.

€ 800 - 1,200