Edward Delany (1930 - 2009) Celtic Dawn Bronze, 89 x 89 x ...

Hammer

€10,000

Edward Delany (1930 - 2009) Celtic Dawn Bronze, 89 x 89 x 179cm(h) including base Provenance: Collection of the late Margaret Grant, Newcastle, Co. Down Celtic Dawn is a large two piece bronze sculpure, which dates from the late 1960s and was cast by the sculptor in his foundry in Dun Laoghaire, south Dublin. The foundry was operational for about 20 years. The title reflects the artists’ continuing interest in the ancient Celtic past, but with such symbolism and imagery re-imagined and re-engaged in a modern context, as was popular in the 1960s, especially by Delaney hinself. The sculpture also represents Delaney’s move to abstraction and to geometrical and angular forms, after his early period of representational and figurative art. The honeycombed circles at the centre of the two pieces are a frequent motif in Delaney’s work, especially from this period onwards. In a rare commentary that he supplied for a similar sculpture (called Finnegan’s Wake), Delaney described the interlinked circles as echoing the cyclical nature of life, death and regeneration. Eamon Delaney, October 2024 Eamon Delaney is the author of Breaking the Mould, A Story of Art and Ireland, (New Island Publishing) which explores his father’s career and the Irish arts scene of the 1960s and 1970s.