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Michael Kane , Irish, b.1935

Title

The Poet in Baggot Street II, Portrait of the Poet Anthony Cronin (b.1929)

Date1990

MediumGouache and ink on paper

Credit LinePresented, in memory of Bríd O'Siadhail, 2015

Object numberNGI.2015.28

DescriptionThis dramatic image of poet Anthony Cronin (b.1928) looming out of a cityscape relates to a series of portraits of the poet and paintings which Michael Kane produced in the 1990s, inspired by the sitter's poetry. This series was exhibited in IMMA in 1995 under the title 'Where the poet has been'.
ProvenancePurchased by Bríd O'Siadhail from the artist through the Rubicon Gallery, late 1980s/early 1990s