Patrick Collins
Patrick Collins was born in Dromore West, Co. Sligo. After his father died from tuberculosis, the family moved to Sligo where his mother ran a small grocery shop. From his youth Collins possessed an absorbing interest in wild-life and would often explore the Sligo countryside. He was sent to boarding-school in Dublin and afterwards found employment in an insurance company, where he worked for about twenty years. In his spare time Collins read extensively and would play rugby each Saturday with the Clontarf Rugby Club. He did not begin to paint until his late twenties. www.whytes.ie He began to attend evening-classes at the National College of Art and attended the life-classes of George Collie. In the mid 1940s he left his job and went to live in a tower in Howth Castle. Whilst there he immersed himself in painting and the tower became a gathering place for writers and artists. In 1950 he began exhibiting in the Irish Exhibition of Living Art and continued to do so for the next twenty years. In 1956 he held his first solo exhibition at the Ritchie Hendriks Gallery, Dublin. Collins work was included in many important group exhibitions during his career, notably the Art Councils modern Irish painting selection which began its European tour in 1969. In 1971 the artist moved to Paris with almost disastrous consequences. In the two years he spent in the city Collins resided at nine different addresses and sometimes lived at a point of near starvation. He left Paris to live in Normandy and then Nice, before returning to Ireland in 1979. In 1980 he was elected HRHA and in the following year he became a member of Aosdana. A retrospective of Collins work was held in the Sligo Art Gallery in 1985. In the late 1980s he received an honorary degree from Trinity College Dublin and was elected Saoi by his fellow Aosdana members. He died at his home in Monkstown in 1994. Works by the artist can be seen in collections throughout Ireland, including the Ulster Museum, National Gallery of Ireland and Crawford Municipal Art Gallery. www.whytes.ie
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'SUN ON THE BOG'
- Price Realised: 44,000
- Sale: 17 September 2002
- oil on board
- 46 by 61cm., 18 by 24in.
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'WATER LILY'
- Price Realised: 31,000
- Sale: 21 September 2004
- oil on canvas
- 42 by 44cm., 16.5 by 17.5in.
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'BRIDGE AND TREES, 1962'
- Price Realised: 28,000
- Sale: 28 November 2006
- oil on board
- 29 by 38cm., 11.5 by 15in.
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'COTTAGES IN THE BOG, 1961'
- Price Realised: 27,000
- Sale: 28 April 2008
- oil on board
- 36 by 46cm., 14 by 18in.
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'LAKE SWAN FEEDING, c.1968'
- Price Realised: 27,000
- Sale: 25 April 2006
- signed lower right; exhibition label on reverse
- 36 by 51cm., 14 by 20in.
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'RAIN ON THE HILL'
- Price Realised: 23,000
- Sale: 19 November 2002
- oil on board
- 41 by 51cm., 16 by 20in.
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'TINKER WOMAN AND CHILD, 1961'
- Price Realised: 22,000
- Sale: 28 April 2008
- oil on board
- 61 by 41cm., 24 by 16in.
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'SHEPHERD'
- Price Realised: 22,000
- Sale: 19 November 2002
- oil on board
- 41 by 51cm., 16 by 20in.
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'BIRD FLYING IN THE WOOD'
- Price Realised: 20,000
- Sale: 17 February 2004
- oil on canvas
- 30 by 41cm., 12 by 16in.
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'TEAPOT AND FORGOTTEN APPLES, c.1976'
- Price Realised: 17,000
- Sale: 25 April 2006
- signed lower right
- 38 by 51cm., 15 by 20in.
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'THE HAPPY PRIEST'
- Price Realised: 15,000
- Sale: 26 April 2005
- oil on board
- 117 by 91cm., 46 by 36in.
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'THE HAPPY PRIEST, 1965'
- Price Realised: 14,000
- Sale: 02 October 2017
- oil on board
- 46 x 36in. (116.84 x 91.44cm)
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'DRUID'S MOON, 1981'
- Price Realised: 14,000
- Sale: 21 May 2012
- oil on canvas
- 32 by 38in., 81.28 by 96.52cm.
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'HEAD OF A GIRL II, circa 1965'
- Price Realised: 14,000
- Sale: 30 April 2007
- oil on board
- 46 by 30cm., 18 by 12in.
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'DUBLIN BAY, 1963'
- Price Realised: 13,500
- Sale: 29 November 2021
- oil on board
- 24 x 30in. (60.96 x 76.20cm)
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'DALKEY ISLAND'
- Price Realised: 12,062
- Sale: 13 June 2001
- oil on board
- 25 by 36cm., 10 by 14in.
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'APPLES, 1961'
- Price Realised: 12,000
- Sale: 27 September 2021
- oil on board
- 15Ό x 19Ύin. (38.74 x 50.17cm)
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'MENHIRS'
- Price Realised: 12,000
- Sale: 20 September 2005
- oil on board
- 30 by 46cm., 12 by 18in.
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'BEYOND THE BOG, 1970'
- Price Realised: 11,500
- Sale: 04 March 2024
- oil on board
- 36 x 48in. (91.44 x 121.92cm)
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'MOONRISE ON THE LAKE'
- Price Realised: 11,500
- Sale: 06 March 2023
- oil on canvas
- 26 x 37in. (66.04 x 93.98cm)
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'THE QUEEN'S BATHING PLACE'
- Price Realised: 10,500
- Sale: 26 November 2018
- oil on board
- 24 x 29½in. (60.96 x 74.93cm)
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'GYPSY CAMP'
- Price Realised: 10,500
- Sale: 30 November 2015
- oil on board
- 25 x 39in. (63½ x 99.06cm)
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'THE ARGONAUT, 1986'
- Price Realised: 9,500
- Sale: 28 November 2006
- oil on unstretched canvas (irregular dimensions)
- 48 by 53cm., 19 by 21in.
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'FLOWERS AND BISON, 1990'
- Price Realised: 8,700
- Sale: 25 February 2008
- oil on canvas laid on board
- 30 by 25cm., 12 by 10in.
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'CHINESE KITE'
- Price Realised: 8,500
- Sale: 19 February 2002
- oil on unstretched canvas
- 41 by 48cm., 16 by 19in.
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'SEA WOMAN, 1962'
- Price Realised: 8,000
- Sale: 18 May 2009
- oil on board
- 36 by 30cm., 14 by 12in.
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'THE BROKEN GERANIUM, 1981'
- Price Realised: 7,500
- Sale: 26 September 2016
- oil on board
- 23½ x 15½in. (59.69 x 39.37cm)
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'LOST DOLL'
- Price Realised: 6,400
- Sale: 14 March 2011
- oil on canvas
- 51 by 64cm., 20 by 25in.