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Edward McGuire RHA (1932 - 1986) Patrick Collins RHA (1983) Oil on board, 60 x 44cm (23½ x 17¼) Signed with initials and dated (19)’83 Also signed, inscribed and dated verso Provenance: With Taylor Galleries, Dublin, label verso. From the Collection of Patrick MacEntee SC Born in Co Sligo in 1910, Collins was educated locally at the Mercy Convent and the Model School at Summerhill College. His childhood experiences of the countryside engendered a love of nature which was to be a vital source of inspiration for his painting. Though he attended classes at the National College of Art, he was largely self-taught, and by the mid 1940s he was working full-time as a painter. In 1950 Collins exhibited his work in public for the first time at the Irish Exhibition of Living Art. His work was first exhibited in the RHA in 1962 and he continued to exhibit there until 1979. He showed regularly at the Oireachtas exhibitions from 1964 to 1973, winning the Irish landscape prize in 1971. He became a member of Aosdána in 1981 and was elected ‘Saoi’ in 1987, the highest distinction in the arts in Ireland.