© Estate of Michael Farrell
 
Micheal Farrell, Irish, 1940-2000
Title: Miss O'Murphy d'apres Boucher
Date: 1978
Medium: Lithograph on paper
Dimensions:
55 x 76 cm
Signed: lower right: Michael Farrell '78
Credit Line: Purchased, 2015
Object Number: NGI.2015.11
DescriptionThis print forms part of Michael Farrell's acerbic commentary on the political situation in Northern Ireland in the 1970s. In 1969, while making his acceptance speech for the main award at the Irish Exhibition of Living Art at the Crawford Art Gallery, Farrell condemned the situation in Derry and in particular British policy in Northern Ireland. Throughout the 1970s and into the 1980s Farrell's work in all media addressed the bloody, intractable nature of contemporary Ireland. His Madonna Irlanda series (of which this is a part) drew attention to, and condemnned, what he saw as the complacency of the Irish political establishment. He intended these works to be controversial and mildly blasphemous.
ProvenancePurchased, Taylor Galleries, Dublin, 2015
Exhibition HistorySolstice Arts Centre, Navan, Co. Meath, 22 August - 19 October 2013

Crawford Gallery, Cork, 7 November 2013 - 4 January 2014

RHA, Dublin, 16 January - 23 February 2014

Centre Cultural Irlandais, Paris, 13 March - 27 April 2014
Inscriptionlower centre: XV/ XV
lower right: Miss O'Murphy d'apres Boucher / the First Real Irish Political Series / And the tiem of Swift / Michael Farrell '78

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