Crossroads Dancing

Details

RITA DUFFY (B. 1959)
Crossroads Dancing
signed 'Rita Duffy' (lower right); signed again, inscribed and dated 'Crossroads Dancing 2015/ Rita Duffy' (on the reverse)
oil on linen
48 1⁄8 x 72 1⁄8 in. (122.2 x 183.2 cm.)
Painted in 2015.

Provenance

Acquired for the present collection at the 2016 exhibition.

Exhibited

Dublin, Arts Council of Ireland, The Souvenir Shop by Rita Duffy, April - June 2016, p. 35, exhibition not numbered.
Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Championing Irish Art: The Mary and Alan Hobart Collection, April - July 2023, pp. 76 - 77, exhibition not numbered, illustrated.

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Lot Essay

Painted in 2015, Crossroads Dancing is part of Rita Duffy's important Souvenir Shop project held in Dublin in 2016. Growing up in Belfast, the artist works in the figurative/narrative tradition, and her enquiries into questions of Irish identity, history and politics often stem from autobiographical experience. In the present work, Duffy is inspired by a vision of her parents dancing a four hand reel at their wedding in 1954.

We are very grateful to the artist for her assistance with cataloguing this lot.

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