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JAMES HYMAN GALLERY
Hughie O'Donoghue (b.1953)
Please scroll down for further information. Hughie O'Donoghue (b.1953) Yellow Man (Head) VI 48 x 55.5 cms (19 x 21¾ inches) Exhibition History: Violence and Sensation, James Hyman Gallery, London, 5 September - 4 October 2008. Series 1 O’Donoghue’s three large Yellow Man paintings, and related head studies, were inspired by one of the nineteenth century’s great re-inventors of reality, Van Gogh, and specifically Van Gogh’s lost painting, The Painter on the Road to Tarascon, which was destroyed in the Second World War. But in referencing this painting, O’Donoghue also allies himself to Francis Bacon for whom this lost painting was also an inspiration. Van Gogh’s painting survives in colour photographs and fifty years ago one such reproduction provided the starting point for a small series of paintings by Francis Bacon. Please click here to contact us about this item, or if you wish to buy or sell a work by this artist. | ||||||||
