Adam's IMPORTANT IRISH ART 2nd September 2020

www.adams.ie Important Irish Art | 2 nd September 2020 87 74 TERENCE P. FLANAGAN PRUA RHA (1929-2011) Gortahork V Oil on board, 82 x 113cm (32¼ x44½’’) Signed Exhibited: Correspondences , Ormeau Baths Gallery, 2010; T.P. Flanagan: A Haunter of Demense and Ditch Back , F.E. McWilliam Gallery, Banbridge, 2010; T.P. Flanagan: Painter of Light and Landscape , Taylor Galleries Dublin, 2010. € 5,000 - 7,000 The series of paintings Flanagan completed around Gortahork in the late 1960s are often considered his most intensely dynamic works, but Gortahork V is a comparatively subdued example and the sweeping, lyrical brushstrokes are gently evocative against the gradual tonal shifts through the receding landscape. Within the Gortahork paintings Flanagan almost seems to be searching for a more gestural and less de- scriptive approach to landscape, as well as an increasingly complex relationship between this pictorial analysis and the viewer’s expectations, with marks often passing across different planes within the pic- ture space and even between the land and the sky, as here in the left side of the present work, creating a highly unified image. T.P. & SHEELAGH FLANAGAN, THEIR LIVES TOGETHER : A STUDIO COLLECTION