Adam's Important Irish Art Auction Tuesday 27th March 2018

43 www.adams.ie Important Irish Art | 27th March 2018 34 MAURICE MACGONIGAL PRHA (1900-1979) 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 cataloguing this lot. € 3,000 - 5,000