Morgan O'Driscoll Irish & International Art Auction 30th April 2018 at 6pm

I RISH & I NTERNATIONAL A RT A UCTION M ONDAY 30 TH A PRIL 2018 AT 6.00 PM 105 Martin Gale (b. ) LOOKING FOR THE LOST DOG titled verso acrylic on canvas 76.5 x 91.5cm (30.12 x 36.02in) Provenance: James Adam’s, Dublin; Private Collection Martin Gale is justly renowned for his exceptionally realistic paintings of Irish rural life. They are attentive to the practicalities, the economic, social and psychological facts of a world that is otherwise often treated in terms of the picturesque. But beauty is there as well in his work. At an earlier point in his career he explored a more overtly magical approach, with a touch of allegory, perhaps reflecting the influence of the English painter David Inshaw, a member of the Brotherhood of Ruralists in the early 1970s. There is a playful resonance between the hare in the foreground and the man in search of his lost dog further back. €3,500-4,500 (£3,043-3,913)