Adam's Important Irish Art Wednesday May 30th 2018

116 99 PATRICK HICKEY HRHA (1927-1998) ‘Self’ Oil on canvas, 171.7 x 149.5cm (67½ x 58¾’’) Provenance: Gifted by the artist’s family to the current owner c.1998 Born in India in 1927, Hickey graduated as an architect from University College, Dublin, and having spent time in Urbino in Italy, returned to Ireland, fired up with enthusiasm for graphics, to found the Graphic Studio Dublin in 1962. Hickey produced watercolours, etchings and lithographs, and showed a great grasp for natural forms. In 1965 the Italian government held a competition to illustrate Dante’s Divine comedy, and Hickey’s eighteen inferno etchings won second prize. In 1967, while living in Dublin, he designed the 5d and 1s stamps issued by the Department of Post and Telegraphs. He taught part-time in the architec- ture department at UCD, and later became head of painting at the National College of Art & Design from 1985 to 1990. Throughout the 1980s, he exhibited at the Taylor Galleries, Dublin. A retrospective of his work was held at the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland in 1994, and later at the Graphic Studio Gallery. He was elected a member of Aosdana in 1981, and served on the board of the Kilkenny Design Workshops. € 1,000 - 1,500