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MICHAEL HALES (B. 1971)
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Title: Lost Cities - Buried Logic
Medium: Encaustic and Oils on Board
Signature: Signed Verso
Provenance: Private Collection
Framed
Lot Description: Michael Hales, Lost Cities: Buried Logic, encaustic and oil on board, signed verso. A textured and contemplative abstract composition from the artist’s Lost Cities series, blending layered wax and oil techniques in a muted palette of greys, blacks, and whites. With its rectilinear architecture and subtle tonal shifts, the work evokes forgotten urban structures, maps, or ruins—hinting at the remnants of lost civilisations and fractured memory. Framed in a contemporary white tray frame.
Image: 80 x 121 cm.
Framed:100 x 141 cm. PICTURES AND PRINTS Tuesday 16th September 2025 20:56:40
Biography
MICHAEL HALES (B. 1971)
Michael Hales is a contemporary Irish artist known for his atmospheric abstract paintings and mixed media works that explore memory, structure, and the erosion of landscape. His Lost Cities series reflects an interest in archaeological narrative, forgotten space, and layered histories. Hales works extensively with encaustic—a wax-based medium—alongside oil and pigment, lending his surfaces a rich depth and tactile quality.
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Title: Lost Cities - Buried Logic
Medium: Encaustic and Oils on Board
Signature: Signed Verso
Provenance: Private Collection
Framed
Lot Description: Michael Hales, Lost Cities: Buried Logic, encaustic and oil on board, signed verso. A textured and contemplative abstract composition from the artist’s Lost Cities series, blending layered wax and oil techniques in a muted palette of greys, blacks, and whites. With its rectilinear architecture and subtle tonal shifts, the work evokes forgotten urban structures, maps, or ruins—hinting at the remnants of lost civilisations and fractured memory. Framed in a contemporary white tray frame.
Image: 80 x 121 cm.
Framed:100 x 141 cm. PICTURES AND PRINTS Tuesday 16th September 2025 20:56:40
Biography
MICHAEL HALES (B. 1971)
Michael Hales is a contemporary Irish artist known for his atmospheric abstract paintings and mixed media works that explore memory, structure, and the erosion of landscape. His Lost Cities series reflects an interest in archaeological narrative, forgotten space, and layered histories. Hales works extensively with encaustic—a wax-based medium—alongside oil and pigment, lending his surfaces a rich depth and tactile quality.
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.
