Nicholas Bowlby requests the pleasure of your company at the Private View of
“Pleurs de Joie” L’an de grâce 1654. Lundi, 23 novembre, jour de Saint Clément, pape et martyr, et autres au martyrologe Veille de Saint Chrysogone, martyr, et autres, depuis environ dix heures et demie du soir jusques environ minuit et demi Feu. Dieu d’Abraham, Dieu d’Isaac, Dieu de Jacob , Non des philosophes et des savants Certitude. Certitude. Sentiment. Joie. Paix (…) Oubli du monde et de tout, hormis Dieu (…) Joie! Joie! Joie! pleurs de joie. Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) This manuscript was found sewn into his waistcoat by his housekeeper after his death
an exhibition of New Pastels and Oils by
Anthony Murphy in the presence of the artist on
7th December 2015 at 6pm at The Studio 73 Glebe Place London SW3 5JB www.nicholasbowlby.co.uk
Anatole Kaletsky will open the Exhibition “The Artist in his Garret” The Exhibition continues until Friday 11th December 11 – 6 pm each day. Other times by appointment. RSVP Tel: +44 7831 255 691 info@nicholasbowlby.co.uk Front Cover – Sophie Asleep, 36 x 29 cm, Pastel on Paper 1
Anthony Murphy Child of empire, fish, fowl, shape-changer, shaman, myriad-masked man, Anthony Murphy breathes his pigment palette into our monochrome world. He tells of fields of praise and sources of enchantment down the byways of Connemara or the colonnades of planes of Aquitaine, illuminating dark corners where men gather and women shed their clothes. His studio-eyrie at Les Jasses looks south towards the snow-capped Pyrenees; here the artist speaks an exuberant metalanguage with joyful eruptions of colour − mysterious, erotic, Theosophical, intimate. I met him in Dublin years back where my author, the poet Richard Murphy, “uncle Rick”, was playing William Butler to Anthony’s Jack. We banded together, rare in middle age; he borrowed images from my words, rendering whole the fragmented, as artists do and publishers aspire towards, evoking particularity along the shores of the unknown (as Isaac Newton cast his pebble into the deep). Call them out in a line: John Moriarty; Fintan MacBochra, Rudolf Steiner − seers and sages in Yeats’ holy fire, tempered by more earthly visions from that rag-and bone-shop of the heart. I placed one of Anthony’s paintings on the cover of his uncle’s new book earlier this May, Poems 1952-2012: it depicts a reader on the road to a bright city, sli na firinne, a homecoming. Antony Farrell, Lilliput Press, August 2013
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The Road to Vezelay 73 x 54 cm Oil on Canvas
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The Staircase 41 x 28 cm Pastel on Paper 4
The Turban 43 x 28 cm Pastel on Board
La Toilete 44 x 31 cm Pastel on Board
Naiad 36 x 29 cm Pastel on Paper 5
Lady with a Fan 73 x 60 cm Oil on Canvas
Colosseum, Rome 73 x 54 cm Oil on Canvas
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Les Jardins de Marceille Limoux 55 x 33 cm Oil on Canvas
Girl with a Parasol 55 x 46 cm Oil on Canvas
Umbrella Pine and Cypresses 61 x 38 cm Oil on Canvas 8
Girl in Black Gloves 61 x 38 cm Oil on Canvas
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La Fromagerie 55 x 38 cm Oil on Canvas
The Farrier 61 x 46 cm Oil on Canvas 10
The Ferryman 55 x 38 cm Oil on Canvas
Settling Down 30 x 60 cm Oil on Canvas
La Coupole 55 x 38 cm Oil on Canvas 11
The Boule Players 61 x 46 cm Oil on Canvas
The Laundry 65 x 46 cm Oil on Canvas Notre Dame Paris 55 x 38 cm Oil on Canvas 12
Olives Ampurias 73 x 54 cm Oil on Canvas 13
Poplars, le Lot 55 x 38 cm Oil on Canvas
Winding Road 55 x 46 cm Oil on Canvas 14
Willy Leahy’s Yard 72 x 58 cm Pastel on Card
The Gift of Despair 65 x 54 cm Oil on Canvas
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Molly Abroad 65 x 46 cm Oil on Canvas
Flamingos 100 x 65 cm Oil on Canvas
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Montolieu 55 x 38 cm Oil on Canvas
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Le DĂŠsir 61 x 38 cm Oil on Canvas
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The Dancer 55 x 38 cm Oil on Canvas
The Bathers 46 x 33 cm Oil on Canvas
Molly Skating in Blue 65 x 46 cm Oil on Canvas 19
The Chefs 65 cm x 50 cm Oil on Canvas
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The Washing Line 41 cm x 28 cm Pastel on Paper
Back Cover – Red Peppers, 55 x 46 cm, Oil on Canvas
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