Artist: John Doherty (b.1949) Title: Eleana - Gets a Facelift (2007) Medium: oil on canvas Size: 30½ x 45½cm (12 x 18in) Signature: signed, titled & dated '07 on reverse Provenance: Taylor Galleries, Dublin Private Collection Exhibited: New Twists and Turns - The Taylor Galleries, Dublin March-April '07, Catalogue number 13 W More info: Click to read more about this lot John Doherty was born in Kilkenny in 1949. He studied architecture at Bolton Street College of Technology, Dublin from 1968 to 1973 before moving to Sydney for five years where he decided to pursue a career as an artist. Although the subject matter of much of Dohertys work belongs to the forlorn and crumbling remains of an Ireland that, though familiar, has been consigned to history, his realism is immediately attractive for its apparently benign normality. The abandoned corner shops and bars, the rusting petrol pumps, rotting boats and disused oil drums seem harmless enough, but upon closer inspection they assume a dark humour. Dohertys images, coupled with the wry wit of their titles, point towards the human stories that exist behind the facades of places and things inhabited and used countless times over the years. Rendered in an incredibly skilled acrylic photo-realism, his paintings make the different country of the past seem both tangible and real. He has exhibited regularly in the Royal Hibernian Academys Annual Exhibition and his work is represented in private collections in Ireland, Australia, America and Europe, and included in the public collections of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Institute of Modern Art, Chicago; the Irish National Stud, AIB Dublin and London; and Artbank, Sydney.
Artist: John Doherty (b.1949) Title: Eleana - Gets a Facelift (2007) Medium: oil on canvas Size: 30½ x 45½cm (12 x 18in) Signature: signed, titled & dated '07 on reverse Provenance: Taylor Galleries, Dublin Private Collection Exhibited: New Twists and Turns - The Taylor Galleries, Dublin March-April '07, Catalogue number 13 W More info: Click to read more about this lot John Doherty was born in Kilkenny in 1949. He studied architecture at Bolton Street College of Technology, Dublin from 1968 to 1973 before moving to Sydney for five years where he decided to pursue a career as an artist. Although the subject matter of much of Dohertys work belongs to the forlorn and crumbling remains of an Ireland that, though familiar, has been consigned to history, his realism is immediately attractive for its apparently benign normality. The abandoned corner shops and bars, the rusting petrol pumps, rotting boats and disused oil drums seem harmless enough, but upon closer inspection they assume a dark humour. Dohertys images, coupled with the wry wit of their titles, point towards the human stories that exist behind the facades of places and things inhabited and used countless times over the years. Rendered in an incredibly skilled acrylic photo-realism, his paintings make the different country of the past seem both tangible and real. He has exhibited regularly in the Royal Hibernian Academys Annual Exhibition and his work is represented in private collections in Ireland, Australia, America and Europe, and included in the public collections of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Institute of Modern Art, Chicago; the Irish National Stud, AIB Dublin and London; and Artbank, Sydney.
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