€420
Star Lot: A magnificent original Cóilín Murray (Dublin, b.1945) oil on canvas painting titled "Haws, Endangered Species" featuring a dynamic allover composition of foliage rendered expressive gestural and impasto brushstrokes, in a palette of magentas, violets, rich blues and deep greens. Signed and titled to verso. Murray is a well renowned Irish artist whose work has fetched into the high hundreds at Whyte's. For smaller examples.
MM: 91 x 84 cm including frame
Born in Dublin, Cóilín Murray was one of the last students of Prof Maurice MacGonigal, President of the RHA. Murray is a highly regarded painter and printmaker. He made his way to West Cork via the National College of Art & Design in Dublin, where he was Head of the Printmaking Department, arriving in Ballydehob in the 1983 and finding there a flourishing centre of creativity.
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