£5,000
MODERN MADE: Modern & Post-War Art, Design & Studio Ceramics | 677
Auction: 29 April 2022 at 11:00 BST
signed and dated (to reverse), oil and acrylic on canvas
Exhibited:
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Felim Egan, 27 March - 16 May 1998, cat. no. 5 (illustrated on p. 21 of the exhibition catalogue).
In the accompanying catalogue to the solo exhibition of the artist’s work where the present work was included at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in 1998 Marina Vaizey wrote of the artist’s response to the ‘highly individual notion of place, the genius loci, recalling the slow growth from topography into landscape that transformed art several centuries ago. His are not domestic pictures, however domestic in size some may be, and however at home they often are. Rather they are windows looking inward in order to look outward. Moveover, however profound Felim Egan’s paintings are, they are also joyful…Foreland [the present work] is aglow from the sun setting on Donegal’s Bloody Foreland.’ (M. Vaizey, exh. cat. Felim Egan, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, March – May 1998)