Breon O'Casey (British 1928-2011) §
Study for Éan Mór, circa 2006
£23,940
Auction: 28 October 2022 from 10:00 BST
Description
III/V, initialled and numbered (to underside of base), patinated bronze, marble base
Dimensions
20cm high, 20cm wide (7 7/8in high, 7 7/8in wide) excluding base
Provenance
When originally purchased from the artist, O'Casey sent a note explaining 'I enclose a token of thanks for all your trouble...It's a maquette of the big one...Breon'.
Footnote
The large scale Éan Mór is situated at Phoenix Park, Dublin.
"It’s odd, but although my paintings are almost always abstract, my sculptures are
almost always of some animal, bird or person. I don’t know why this is; but maybe
painting is a language - a language writ on hardboard, paper or canvas. The language
of colour and form - as John Wells says: “whereas sculpture is objects”. And an object,
unless it be a stone, must be of something." (Breon O'Casey)