In late 2022 I was contacted by Dan Breen of the Cork Public Museum with regard to a sculpture by Seamus Murphy that that has been on display in Fitzgerald Park since 1977, over 45 years.
Being a great aficionado of Murphy’s work, I was already familiar with the piece, titled ‘Dreamline’, from photographs. Sculpted in 1934, it seemingly lay in the artist’s studio before being installed in the park over four decades later. A carving of sublime beauty, it depicts a woman’s head fully shrouded in robes but for the face, which is looking downwards with a dreamy expression, her eyes closed.
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