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Alicia Boyle RBA (1908-1997)

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Alicia Boyle RBA (1908-1997)

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Auction Date:2004 Nov 30 @ 18:00 (UTC+00:00 : GMT)
Location:Ireland
Alicia Boyle RBA (1908-1997)
KELP GATHERERS, EL PINDO
signed in monogram lower right; inscribed and dated [1958] on reverse; also with original labels on reverse
oil on canvas
127 by 102cm., 50 by 40in.
Exhibited:
RBA, London, 1958;
‘Alicia Boyle: Recent Paintings’, CEMA, Belfast, 25 February - 21 March 1959;
‘Alicia Boyle Retrospective Exhibition: 1938-1982’, Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Belfast, 20 April - 14 May 1983, exhibition later toured to the Gordon Gallery, Derry, the Wexford Arts Centre and the Cork Arts Society Gallery, catalogue no. 26;
‘Alicia Boyle: 1932-1988’, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, May 1988, catalogue no. 184
Literature:
Hilary Pyle, ‘Alicia Boyle: The world of the painter’ in Alicia Boyle: A catalogue of Paintings, Drawings and Prints 1932-1988 , Crawford Gallery, Cork, 1988, pp. 13, 30
In 1955 Alicia Boyle first visited Spain and there found a landscape imbued with a sense of poetry and mythology, similar to those which she had previously discovered in Greece and Ireland. In particular she was struck by the town of El Pindo on the Galician coast, where the unusually shaped hill had once been a sort of ‘Mt Olympus’ for the Celtic people who lived there. Hilary Pyle describes this period in her art as a time when location took precedence over legend and when she began to achieve “the spiritual sense of matter her master Ernest Jackson had urged her to pursue”, identifying the present work as one such which possessed “this inherent inspiration of locality” (op. cit. , p. 13).
€12000-€15000 (£8000-£10100 approx.)