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Lissadell House
Lissadell House

Lissadell House

Artist (b. 1929 - d. 2011)
Date1971
MediumWatercolour on paper
Dimensions57.5 x 76 cm
ClassificationsWatercolours
Credit LineCollection & image © Hugh Lane Gallery. Donated by Terence P. Flanagan (the Artist) in memory of Lady Mary Gore-Booth, 1971. © The Estate of Terence P. Flanagan.
Object number1321
Description'Lissadell House' portrays the Regency home of the Gore-Booths, near the sea at Lissadell, Co. Sligo. The house had strong links with the Irish literary revival and with Irish nationalism through such figures as Countess Markievicz (née Gore-Booth), W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory and J. M. Synge. Brought up near its demesne, T. P. Flanagan is convinced that it was there that much of his imagination was fostered.

Of the Lissadell series the artist has explained: 'I have tried to record impressions of light in the western sky or trapped and coloured in the dark avenues. I have also tried to evoke the sound of the sea and possibly something of its presence, unseen, but somehow reflected in the air. I have used the shapes, spaces and colours that seemed to me essential to what I was trying to say'. ('Two Ulster Painters', Arts Council of Northern Ireland touring exhibition. Catalogue with artist's notes).

(Extract from 'Images and Insights', Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin, 1993, p. 142)
On View
Not on view
Countess Constance Markievicz
Boleslaw von Szankowski
1901
Portrait of Lady Charles Beresford
John Singer Sargent
c. 1906
John Millington Synge
John Butler Yeats
c 1905/1907
The Family
Peter Behan
before 1968
Daniel O'Connell
Andrew O'Connor
1932
Mrs Lucy de Laszlo
Philip Alexius de László de Lombos
1902
William Cosgrave
Sir John Lavery
1923
On the Quays, Etaples
Frank Joseph O'Meara
c. 1888