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Medium: carborundum
Edition of 50
More about the artist:
Tony O'Malley was born in Callan, Co. Kilkenny in 1913. He worked for many years in a bank but after contracting tuberculosis he retired in his forties to pursue a long desired career as a full time painter.
For the next thirty years OMalley lived in Cornwall where he came into contact with many of the leading figures in the St. Ives community. In spite of his long exile, OMalley is quintessentially an Irish artist, imbued with intense feelings for the tribe, the local and the family. Entirely self taught, he was obliged to invent his own visual language, to which he has always remained true. Tony OMalley died in January 2003 aged 89.
Location: Dublin