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Patrick Collins RHA (1911-1994)
Hidden Landscape (1965)
Oil on board, 45.5 x 60cm (17¾ x 23¾”)
Signed
Provenance: Collection of Sir Basil Goulding
Exhibited: “Patrick Collins Exhibition”, Ritchie Hendriks Gallery, Dublin, April 1965
€7,000 - 10,000
Sligo born Patrick Collins was a self taught artist, aside from the evening classes he took
at the National College of Art while working for an insurance company. In the 1940’s he
took a tower in Howth Castle as his home and it fast became a meeting place for a select
group of artists and writers. Collins flourished within this cultural circle and by 1950 he
had begun exhibiting at the Irish Exhibition of Living Art. In 1958 his Liffey Quayside,
now housed in the National Gallery of Ireland, won the National Award at the Guggen-
heim International Show in New York. Five years later his work appeared again in New
York when he was one of twelve artists in a group show organised by the Arts Council,
Dublin. In the interim a solo show was held of Collins’ work at the Ritchie Hendriks
Gallery, and he had begun to exhibit at the RHA.
Following the success of these shows his work was included at the Oireachtas Art Exhi-
bition, The Arts Council of Belfast and the Mercury Gallery in London, as well as solo
shows at David Hendriks and Tom Caldwell Galleries in Dublin and Belfast. In 1980
Collins was elected HRHA and a member of Aosdána the following year. In 1988 he
received an Honorary Doctorate of Literature from Trinity College, Dublin. His works
can be found in the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin City Gallery the Hugh Lane,
Crawford Municipal Gallery and Ulster Museum.