Adam's IMPORTANT IRISH ART 2nd September 2020

www.adams.ie Important Irish Art | 2 nd September 2020 79 66 TERENCE P. FLANAGAN PRUA RHA (1929-2011) Tree Line (Roughra) Oil on canvas, 71 x 91cm (28 x 35¾’’) Signed; also signed and inscribed with title verso Provenance: With David Hendriks Gallery, Dublin. € 3,000 - 5,000 In 1968 the Flanagans acquired a cottage at Roughra in Donegal, to which a studio was subsequently added. As the troubles intensified, the family began to spend more time there and away from Belfast and it became a focal point for visitors such as Seamus Heaney, Brian Friel, Gordon Lambert, Derek Hill and F.E. McWilliam. While Flanagan continued to work on a number of themes during these years, the landscape around Roughra as well as the experience of living there and the cottage itself became increasingly important to him. While many of the Roughra landscapes are restrained but have a sense of quiet drama, Tree Line, Roughra empha- sises structure and the organisation of certain visual elements as Flanagan’s starting-point. T.P. & SHEELAGH FLANAGAN, THEIR LIVES TOGETHER : A STUDIO COLLECTION