‘Islands’ featured lot at RDS art auction

Islands, a magnificent oil on board by Patrick Collins (1911-1994) is a feature lot at Morgan O’Driscoll’s art auction at the RDS on September 15 at 6pm. 

The 114-lot sale will be at on view in Skibbereen next Saturday (Sept 6) and on Sunday and Monday week from noon to 5pm on each day.

According to catalogue notes by Niamh O’Sullivan, the Irish art historian: “Collins played a significant part in the radicalisation and internationalisation of Irish art. In many respects, Ireland skipped the evolving ‘isms’ of European and American 20th-century art until the 1960s. This sudden recognition of modernism resulted in a unique form, typified by Collins, a bringing together an art that acknowledges its Celtic past, but is distinctly modern”.