Adam's IMPORTANT IRISH ART 2nd September 2020

www.adams.ie Important Irish Art | 2 nd September 2020 73 60 TERENCE P. FLANAGAN PRUA RHA (1929-2011) View from St. Mary’s (1968) Oil on board, 75 x 106cm (29½ x 41¾’’) Signed and dated (19)’68 Exhibited: T.P. Flanagan Retrospective , Ulster Museum, Belfast; Hugh Lane Municipal Gal- lery, Dublin; Fermanagh County Museum, 1995/1996 (catalogue illustration, p.28). Literature: S.B. Kennedy, T.P. Flanagan Painter of Light and Landscape , Lund Humphries, 2013; illustrated p.70. € 5,000 - 8,000 St Mary’s, the college where T.P. Flanagan taught for many years, is an unusual subject for him, but this cityscape is a reminder that Flanagan lived and painted in Belfast throughout his adult life, and also demonstrates his enduring interest in the structural arrangement of a painting. The short horizontal shapes of the buildings in the middle distance balance the verticals established by the two trees in the foreground, and the image is brought together in a spatially compressed and interrelated composition by the mirroring of the geometric shapes in the sky and the foreground. T.P. & SHEELAGH FLANAGAN, THEIR LIVES TOGETHER : A STUDIO COLLECTION