Edward A. McGuire, Irish, 1932-1986
Title: Paul Durcan (b.1944), Poet
Date: 1981
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
81.2 x 61 cm
Signed: on verso: PAUL DURCAN/BY EDWARD McGUIRE/1981
Credit Line: Purchased, 1992
Object Number: NGI.4579
DescriptionPaul Durcan is a distinguished poet. He was awarded the Whitbread Prize for Poetry in 1990, and is a member of Aosdána. In 1991 he published Crazy About Women, a collection of poetry inspired by pictures in the National Gallery of Ireland collection. He subsequently produced Give Me Your Hand, a collection inspired by paintings in the National Gallery in London. This portrait, in which the sitter assumes a relaxed pose in a deck-chair, and looks wistfully upwards, was used to illustrate Durcan's Selected Poems, published in 1982. McGuire's other sitters, portrayed with similar precision, included Seamus Heaney and Pearse Hutchinson.
Exhibition HistoryIMMA, Dublin, 'Meetings: Into the Studio of Edward McGuire', Nov 2015 - May 2016
InscriptionPAUL DURCAN/BY EDWARD McGUIRE/1981