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Patrick Collins HRHA (1911-1984) MENHIRS

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Patrick Collins HRHA (1911-1984) MENHIRS
<B>Patrick Collins HRHA (1911-1984)</B><BR>MENHIRS<BR>signed lower right; original exhibition label on reverse<BR>oil on board<BR>30 by 46cm., 12 by 18in.<BR>Provenance:<BR>Ritchie Hendriks Gallery, Dublin; Whence purchased by Sam Edgar, August 1961; James Adam Salesrooms, Dublin, March 1986, lot 87; Whence purchased by the present owner Collins went through an Expressionist phase in the early 1960s, painting in thick impasto with great vigour and bravura. During this period he painted a small series of works depicting menhirs, the prehistoric standing stones found both in Brittany and Ireland. In his 1961 exhibition at the Hendriks Gallery he showed two such works: Landscape with Menhirs (catalogue no. 11, 250 gns, purchased by the Arts Council) and Menhirs on the Plain, Brittany (catalogue no. 15, 45 gns). A third work, Three Menhirs (oil on board, 17 by 25 inches), painted around the same time, was purchased by the Jury's Hotel Group.