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 159 144 Charles Brady HRHA (1926-1997) Haystacks at Killeshandra (1967) signed lower right, titled and dated verso oil on canvas 43 x 38cm (17 x 15in) Provenance: Private Collection €1,500-€2,500 ($1,685-$2,808) (£1,271-£2,118) Charles Brady was a New Yorker. After wartime service in the navy, he studied painting and began to exhibit, but then found his way to Ireland in 1956 and settled. He became well known - and well liked, personally - for his small, impeccably judged com- positions of single motifs, most famously envelopes, though he also liked landscape. His paintings have a Morandi-like quietness and, despite their modest scale, an air of monumentality. They are also witty plays on ideas of flatness and depth, as in this study of a haystack in County Cavan.