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The Brass Bed (60/80)
The Brass Bed (60/80)

The Brass Bed (60/80)

Artist (b. 1939)
Date1968
MediumLithograph on paper
Dimensions59.6 x 40.6 cm
ClassificationsPrint
Credit LineCollection & image © Hugh Lane Gallery. © The Estate of Éamonn O'Doherty.
Object number1139
DescriptionThis is a four colour planographic print (lithograph) on paper, depicting a nude woman wearing a pair of sunglasses, sitting on a bed.

O'Doherty is a painter, printmaker and photographer but is best known for his large-scale public sculptures, thirty of which stand in Ireland, the United Kingdom and the United States. Among these are landmark works such as the James Connolly Memorial and the "Tree of Gold" at Central Bank, Dublin, the Quincentennial Sculpture in Eyre Square, Galway, and The Great Hunger Memorial in Westchester, New York.
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