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 57 Patrick Collins RHA ( - ) MENHIR ON THE PLAIN I signed lower right oil on canvas 51 x 69cm (20.08 x 27.17in) Provenance: Tom Caldwell Galleries, Dublin (label verso); Collection of the late Vincent Ferguson; A key 20th century Irish artist, Patrick Collins was a consummate individualist who was deeply sensitive, well read, historically aware and had an instinctive sympathy with the essence of pre-modernised Ireland. Fascinated by the existential predicament of isolated communities and individuals, he harboured a regard for what he termed “the Celtic thing.” Late in life, encouraged by his interest in Chinese painting, which disdained the Western adoption of perspective, he made cut-out paintings that enabled him to make compositions in a new way. €5,000-7,000 (£4,347-6,086)