Pearse’s Cottage - A Painting
Pearse’s Cottage. In Rosmuc, County Galway. Where Patrick Pearse spent his summers. Before that trip to the GPO.
This is a big painting. And I’m leaving town.
So if you fancied buying it you could make me an offer and see what happens.
Previously priced in the thousands I’m willing to let it go now for hundreds. It’s ready to hang as is - the sides are 2 inches thick and painted white.
Because it’s 52 inches wide by 38 inches high, I’m only thinking of selling it locally in Kansas City - as I did with the last large painting recently sold, Blue Mountains, Green Grass.
I painted this not because Pearse started that little episode at the Post Office in 1916, nor because of his love for the Irish language, but simply because I spent 2 summers in Rosmuc and this cottage was - and still is (I visited it again 2 years ago) ridiculous looking in its location. What I mean by that is that the cottage scene in actuality - if not here in my painting, looks like a postcard. Clearly Pearse was an idealist.
If Pearse’s Cottage doesn’t sell that’s fine - I can take it home to Ireland with everything else I’m shipping home, so I’m not entirely desperate.
Here’s a good place to read about the history of Rosmuc and of Pearse’s Cottage.
Oh, and you know the way I often claim some of my paintings look better in reality than they do on screen with my dodgy digital camerawork? Well, this is not one of those times. In this case I think Pearse’s Cottage looks better here on screen than it does in reality behind me here in this room.
While - arguably - all the best ones have already sold, there are still some of my Irish paintings available for sale on special offer, and some not so Irish paintings also.
Meanwhile I’m wondering more than you are how many of the current paintings I’m working on that I’ll ever get finished or at least get finished before I leave the US.
Eolaí gan Fhéile:
Dammit… I’d make an offer on the painting, but I’m not in Kansas.
Where are my manners? Thank you mister - and I imagine the painting itself won’t be over here in Kansas City too much longer anyhow - if no buyer, then home to Ireland it goes.
I think it is an absolutely lovely painting. Sorry to hear you are leaving the U.S., but maybe when we make our trip to Ireland someday we can see your paintings in a gallery. Sincerely,
Robbin
Thanks very much Robbin.
Any shows or relationships with any galleries in Ireland that develop I’ll certainly post news of on here.
eolai: Im not in Kansas but if I clicked my shoes three times I may end up back in Ireland.
I recently get a gift of a 1966 special 10 sd coin with Pearse on one side and Cúchullain on the other.
$ 350 plus what ever its costs to ship to either Ireland or Lebanon as a first offer.
MacDara,
I’d be happy to accept your offer if we can sort the shipping out. It’s a very big painting - for me - and too big for An Post as is.
I could take it off the stretchers and send it rolled up, but then you’d have to get your hands on stretchers and put it back on. The shipping would be based on the weight. No idea how much that would be but if for example it weighed 3Kg then then the shipping within Ireland would only be something like 10 euro. To the Lebanon would be closer to 40 euro.
It’s in storage in an industrial estate in Dublin West - if you had somewhere for it to go not too far away I could possibly persuade somebody with a big enough vehicle to help me retrieve and deliver it as is ready to hang. (The super bike could even do it but there’d have to be absolutely no wind).
I never seen one of those special 10 shilling coins, but I really like the Cúchullain side.
I should drop you an email on the painting.
Eolai, shipping to Longford or Lusk are both possibilities. Given the current conditions in Lebanon I amy be home before too long.
will ceck e-mail abd get back too you.
Cheers
MacDara,
Have sent the email earlier today. For some reason a few of my emails lately seem to be ending up in people’s spam folders.