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

Oil on board, 75 x 60cm (29½ x 23½’’)

Signed

Born in Lurgan in 1930, Maguire graduated from the Queen’s University Belfast in 1951.

He then took an English teaching post at Lurgan College. He became a member of the

Royal Ulster Academy in 1974, winning both the Silver Medal (1964, 1967) and the Gold

Medal there (1993). In 1971 he began exhibiting at the Royal Hibernian Academy in

Dublin and between 1982 and 1992 he exhibited at the Oriel Gallery in Dublin in a series

of solo exhibitions. In 1981 he retired from teaching at Lurgan College to concentrate on

painting and travelling.

Maguire now divides his time between Italy, Belfast and the West of Ireland but lives and

works for a great part of the year in Roundstone, Connemara - an area that has always

been the inspiration for much of his work.

€ 8,000 - 12,000