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MAURICE C. WILKS RHA RUA (1911 - 1984)
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Title: Near Clifden, Connemara
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Provenance: The Bell Gallery, Belfast (Label Verso);
Private Collection
Lot Description: An original oil on canvas landscape by Irish artist Maurice Canning Wilks, depicting the sweeping scenery near Clifden, Connemara. The work captures the expansive bogland and shimmering water with the Twelve Bens mountains rising in the distance beneath a softly clouded sky. Painted with Wilks’ characteristic realism and delicate tonal gradation, this piece evokes the tranquillity and grandeur of the West of Ireland. Signed lower right. Presented in a giltwood frame with linen slip. Image: 49.5 x 75 cm.
Framed: 75 x 101 cm. PICTURES AND PRINTS Tuesday 16th September 2025 18:05:50
Biography
MAURICE C. WILKS RHA RUA (1911 - 1984)
Maurice Canning Wilks, born on 25 November 1910 in Belfast, was a landscape and portrait painter. He was educated at Malone Public School and later studied at Belfast College of Art. At the age of nineteen, he exhibited for the first time at the Royal Hibernian Academy and went on to show his work in London, Montreal, Boston, and Toronto, including numerous solo exhibitions. Wilks was an early exhibitor with the Ulster Academy of Arts and maintained his academician status when the Royal Ulster Academy was established. Later in life, he was elected an associate member of the RHA.
Wilks was particularly known for his depictions of Irish landscapes, often focusing on Donegal and the West of Ireland. He was also an accomplished portraitist, with sitters including his mentor, James Humbert Craig. During the 1950s, he held several solo exhibitions at Anderson & McAuley, and in the 1960s, his work was shown in Montreal and Boston, as well as at the Magee Gallery and the Walker Art Gallery. Following his death in 1984, a retrospective of his work was presented at the Oriel Gallery.
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Title: Near Clifden, Connemara
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Provenance: The Bell Gallery, Belfast (Label Verso);
Private Collection
Lot Description: An original oil on canvas landscape by Irish artist Maurice Canning Wilks, depicting the sweeping scenery near Clifden, Connemara. The work captures the expansive bogland and shimmering water with the Twelve Bens mountains rising in the distance beneath a softly clouded sky. Painted with Wilks’ characteristic realism and delicate tonal gradation, this piece evokes the tranquillity and grandeur of the West of Ireland. Signed lower right. Presented in a giltwood frame with linen slip. Image: 49.5 x 75 cm.
Framed: 75 x 101 cm. PICTURES AND PRINTS Tuesday 16th September 2025 18:05:50
Biography
MAURICE C. WILKS RHA RUA (1911 - 1984)
Maurice Canning Wilks, born on 25 November 1910 in Belfast, was a landscape and portrait painter. He was educated at Malone Public School and later studied at Belfast College of Art. At the age of nineteen, he exhibited for the first time at the Royal Hibernian Academy and went on to show his work in London, Montreal, Boston, and Toronto, including numerous solo exhibitions. Wilks was an early exhibitor with the Ulster Academy of Arts and maintained his academician status when the Royal Ulster Academy was established. Later in life, he was elected an associate member of the RHA.
Wilks was particularly known for his depictions of Irish landscapes, often focusing on Donegal and the West of Ireland. He was also an accomplished portraitist, with sitters including his mentor, James Humbert Craig. During the 1950s, he held several solo exhibitions at Anderson & McAuley, and in the 1960s, his work was shown in Montreal and Boston, as well as at the Magee Gallery and the Walker Art Gallery. Following his death in 1984, a retrospective of his work was presented at the Oriel Gallery.
IMPORTANT IRISH & INTERNATIONAL ART 16th September
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Lots: 1-263
Venue Address
The Square
Durrow
Co. Laois
R32 FN88
Ireland
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Sheppard’s are pleased to present this auction of Important Irish Art. The sale includes major works of art by Daniel O’Neill, Willliam Ashford, Frank McKelvey, Grace Henry, Sean Keating, Sean McSweeney, James Humbert Craig, Sir William Orpen, Gerard Dillon, Augustus Burke, Harry Kernoff, Paul Sandby, John Henry Foley, Peter Curling, Graham Knuttel, Donald Teskey, Jean Dufy, John Behan, Rory Breslin, Siobhan Bulfin and many more.
