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The Ib Jorgensen Collection 11
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November 2014
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John Behan RHA (b.1938)
Bull
Bronze, 45cm high x 68cm long (17.75 x 26.75”)
Born in Dublin in 1938, John Behan trained in London and Oslo. He has been
awarded many honours and became a Member of the Royal Hibernian Academy
in 1990, having been an Associate of the Academy since 1973. He is also a mem-
ber of Aosdána.
The poet and Nobel Laureate, Seamus Heaney has said of the artist: ‘There is
something psychologically salubrious about John Behan. It is as if you are en-
countering what the Upanishads call the ancient self, something previous to an
underlying individual character, some kind of psychic bedrock.’
€4,000 - 6,000