Morgan O'Driscoll Irish & International Art Auction 29th April 2019

I rish & I nternational A rt M onday 29 th A pril 2019 at 6.00 pm 113 91 Charles Tyrrell (b.1950) Swing (1989) signed, titled and dated 1989 verso oil on board 120 x 120cm (47.25 x 47.25in) Provenance: Whyte’s, Dublin, 23rd February 2015, Lot 40; Private Collection €4,000-€6,000 ($4,494-$6,741) (£3,389-£5,084) One of Ireland’s foremost abstract painters, Charles Tyrrell moved to the edge of the ocean on the Beara Peninsula in 1984 after many years in Dublin. Observers noted that the atmosphere of the place influenced the work, as here for example, of this most ur- ban of artists. Geometric subdivisions underly virtually all of his compositions. The diagonals making four triangles here inspired speculation that he might have in mind a reference to the four provinces.