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

Important Irish Art | 31st May 2017

Gouache, 50 x 70cm (19½ x 27½’’)

Signed; signed again, inscribed with title and dated (19)’51 (AR 1550) verso

This is a joyful painting, full of colour. It contains a lot of imagery representing an idyllic life including some of the artist’s

regular themes, such as the wookie figures (children here), crowing cocks, sun and moon with faces. This gouache was

painted in January 1951. Rákóczi was living with friends at the time in Paris and tended to move regularly as he never liked to

outstay his welcome. He still was able to produce paintings such as this, full of life. It was deeply opposite to his own life in the

city. He enjoyed Paris, he found great creativity in the city but he was abjectly poor, relying on a sale of a painting for his next

meal.

€ 1,000 - 1,500