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Lot description
Martin Gale (b.1949) Looking for the Lost Dog acrylic on canvas titled verso h:76.50 w:91.50 cm. Provenance: James Adam's, Dublin; Private Collection Martin Gale is justly renowned for his exceptionally realistic paintings of Irish rural life. They are attentive to the practicalities, the economic, social and psychological facts of a world that is otherwise often treated in terms of the picturesque. But beauty is there as well in his work. At an earlier point in his career he explored a more overtly magical approach, with a touch of allegory, perhaps reflecting the influence of the English painter David Inshaw, a member of the Brotherhood of Ruralists in the early 1970s. There is a playful resonance between the hare in the foreground and the man in search of his lost dog further back.