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Attic Monday

Date: 1956 Dimensions: 40 x 26cm Medium: Oil on Canvas Collection: Niland Collection Provenance: Presented by Cecil King, 1970. In memory of Henry King Description: One of five works given to the Arts Council by The Graphic Studio, Dublin adjudged to be the best work done in the studio that

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Portrait of W.B.Yeats as a Young Man

Date: No Date Dimensions: 25 x 31.5cm Medium: Pastel on Board Collection: Niland Collection Provenance: Presented by James A Healy, 1966 (John & Catherine Healy Memorial Collection)

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Country Scene

Date: 1926 Dimensions: 60 x 50cm Medium: oil on Canvas Collection: Niland Collection Provenance: Presented by James A. Healy in 1975 (Josephine C. Healy Memorial Collection) Description: Paul Henry was born in Belfast and educated in London and Paris but it was in the west of Ireland that he was

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Portrait of Estella Solomons

Date: No Date Dimensions: 70.75 x 92cm Medium: Oil on Canvas Collection: Niland Collection Provenance: Bequest of Ms K Goodfellow, 1980 Description: Born in Dublin, Francis Beckett or Cissie, as she was known, studied in Dublin and Paris. She was close to the better known artist Estella Solomons and this

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The Fairy Fort

Date: No Date Dimensions: 35.5 x 27cm Medium: Oil on Board Collection: Niland Collection Provenance: Donated by The Haverty Trust, 1961 Description: Collins usually painted in a restricted palette dominated by whites, greys and browns. The critic Brian O Doherty linked this colour scheme to the Irish landscape and described

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Farmland

Date: 1989 Dimensions: 100.25 x 106cm Medium: Oil on Canvas Collection: Niland Collection Description : Having missed the opportunity to study abroad as a young man, in 1971 aged sixty-one, Patrick Collins moved to Paris. Throughout the period that he lived and worked in the city, his art became looser and

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