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Sep. 30, 2024
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) ISLAND PERIMETER, 2005
Est: €3,000 - €5,000
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) ISLAND PERIMETER, 2005 charcoal on Fabriano paper signed and dated lower left; inscribed on label on reverse h:27.50 w:39.25 in.
Whyte's
Sep. 30, 2024
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) THE DIVER II, 2021
Est: €20,000 - €30,000
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) THE DIVER II, 2021 oil on paper signed, titled and dated on reverse h:30 w:41 in. When Donald Teskey was first invited to paint at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in Ballycastle, North Mayo in the 1990s, the experience was decisive for him, and for the direction his work was taking. As a graduate of LSAD at the end of the 1970s, he was exceptional in that he was primarily a draughtsman, and one of great virtuosity. He found his subject matter in the edgy, marginal spaces of the urban environment and his images conveyed a slight tension, an unease. That became accentuated when, settled in Dublin, he addressed his environment, a patch of nature on the swooping valley of the Dodder at Milltown, and a series of allegorical figurative works on trapeze artists. When he turned to painting, he treated the fabric of the city as landscape, with canyon-like streets around the Guinness brewery and the stratified layers of rail lines, canals, roads and laneways cutting through monumental industrial structures. He has never lost a feeling for the spatial drama of the city, but when he connected with the elemental spectacle of the western seaboard, something clicked. He had found his landscape. Of course he has explored that landscape further, up and down the coast, and inland, but its essence is encapsulated in its simplest form: the mass of the Atlantic Ocean breaking against the rocky shore. The beauty of it is that this stark opposition of driven water and intractable rock is framed by a rhythmic patterning of time, tide and weather that is both repetitious and productive of endless variety. The artist has become attuned to the heightened moments when waves break against dark stone and vast bursts of water course through the intricate mazes of slippery rock created by the relentless tidal onslaught. He had embarked on a new body of work when lockdown intervened in 2020. Working close to home, back on the Dodder, seemed to sharpen his appetite for the West, and when he could return there, in 2021, he made paintings exceptional for their liveliness and vigour. The recipient of many honours and awards, Donald Teskey has worked and exhibited widely at home and abroad and his work is included in numerous collections, public and private. Aidan Dunne, September 2024
Whyte's
Sep. 25, 2024
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) Nude (2003) Oil on Paper, 50 x 55cm (20_ x 21_) Signed and dated (20)'03
Est: €5,000 - €7,000
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) Nude (2003) Oil on Paper, 50 x 55cm (20_ x 21_) Signed and dated (20)'03
Adam's
May. 27, 2024
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) EVENING SHORELINE
Est: €25,000 - €35,000
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) EVENING SHORELINE oil on canvas signed on reverse (concealed by frame) h:31.50 w:39.50 in. Provenance: Whyte's, 6 June 2022, lot 83; Private collection A really fine example of a subject that Donald Teskey began to explore in the latter half of the 1990s and at which he came to excel. He began as a draughtsman of exceptional skill, conjuring anomalous, gritty urban spaces subtly infused with a sense of the uncanny or unsettling, with scraps of paper suspended on gusts of wind. That was in Limerick, where he studied at LSAD. When he moved to Dublin, he continued to draw, developing those cryptic scraps into allegories of emotional life in images of acrobats in flight and, as he explored his surroundings, sweeping, vertiginous views of the dramatic topography around Milltown. When he set about painting he ventured further afield again, envisaging areas of the city, including the industrial tracts of Dublin 8, as windswept urban landscapes, with streets as valleys, canals as rivers. In retrospect, his venturing west, into the coastal landscape dominated by the Atlantic, was logical. In practice, the catalyst was an invitation to work at the Ballinglen Art Foundation in Ballycastle, North Mayo, with a magnificent coastline on the doorstep. Often, in his paintings, he considers the habitable, constructed fabric of houses, towns, harbours, on the ocean's edge, but increasingly he also addressed a pared-down world: the tide driven ocean, the scoured rocky coast, distant headlands and ever-changing skies. Over time he's become impressively expert at broaching these elements, and their fierce interaction, in boldly managed paint. The tremendous verve and freedom of his method is never just for show, rather it is perfectly matched to the character and detail of the subject. Aidan Dunne
Whyte's
May. 27, 2024
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) CUMBERLAND STREET SOUTH, DUBLIN, 2001
Est: €30,000 - €40,000
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) CUMBERLAND STREET SOUTH, DUBLIN, 2001 oil on canvas; (unframed) signed lower right; signed, titled and dated on reverse h:43 w:48 in. Provenance: Taylor Gallery, Belfast; Private collection Probably Ireland's best known contemporary landscape painter, Donald Teskey is rightly celebrated for his striking shoreline landscapes based on the Western Seaboard, particularly around northwest Mayo. His formative introduction to the Atlantic followed an invitation to paint at the Ballinglen Art Foundation in Ballycastle in the mid-1990s. Prior to that, he was better known as a painter of the urban landscape, from Limerick, where he attended art school, to Dublin, where he has mostly been based since. In fact, urban and inland settings have been continually central to his work. Unusually, drawing was his primary medium until, in the early 1990s, he began using oil in vivid, atmospheric paintings of Dublin. From the start, there was a vigorous immediacy to his studies of the city. He liked the older, weathered quarters: the canyon-like streets around the old Guinness Brewery complex in Dublin 8, for example. And he loved the spatial complexity of infrastructural evolution, the different levels and layers of roads and paths, lanes, rail lines, canals and power cables. Following his working trips to Mayo and West Cork, an awareness of the Liffey, the docks and the sea became enhanced in his Dublin paintings. One can sense the proximity of Dublin Bay in the watery light of this Cumberland Street South study, not least in the way moisture in the air enhances colour intensity. The setting is very much part of the old, industrial city and it has that air of durability and erosion you find in a natural coastal landscape, a product of weather and time. Light glares brilliantly through the tunnel formed by the rail lines crossing overhead from Pearse Station on Westland Row. Of Palatine descent, Teskey was born in Rathkeale, Co Limerick and studied at Limerick School of Art and Design. His technical excellence was apparent from early on, in virtuoso drawings of run-down, marginal urban locations. His drawings had a tremendous physicality that translated perfectly to painting. He has noted his use of trowels and knives as well as brushes in works that convey the changeable, dynamic character of Irish weather and light. His work is included in numerous private and public collections. Aidan Dunne, April 2024
Whyte's
Mar. 11, 2024
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) AUTUMN COASTLINE
Est: €18,000 - €22,000
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) AUTUMN COASTLINE acrylic on paper signed lower left h:28 w:38 in. Provenance: de Veres, 13 October 2008, lot 84; Private collection
Whyte's
Mar. 11, 2024
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) AN ISLAND
Est: €2,000 - €3,000
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) AN ISLAND oil on board signed lower left h:8 w:8 in.
Whyte's
Dec. 06, 2023
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) Landfall Variations XI Charcoal, 71 x 100cm (28 x 39¼) Signed and dated (20)'05 Provenance: With Rubicon Gallery, label verso
Est: €4,000 - €6,000
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) Landfall Variations XI Charcoal, 71 x 100cm (28 x 39¼) Signed and dated (20)'05 Provenance: With Rubicon Gallery, label verso
Adam's
Dec. 04, 2023
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) NEAR DURRUS, WEST CORK, 2019
Est: €3,500 - €4,500
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) NEAR DURRUS, WEST CORK, 2019 oil on board signed lower left; signed, titled and dated on reverse h:9.25 w:11.50 in.
Whyte's
Oct. 02, 2023
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) WATER'S EDGE XI, 2006
Est: €8,000 - €10,000
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) WATER'S EDGE XI, 2006 oil on canvas signed and dated lower left; signed, titled, dated and with Vangard Gallery label on reverse h:12 w:15.75 in. Provenance: Vangard Gallery, Cork, 2006; Private collection
Whyte's
Oct. 02, 2023
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) LANDFALL VARIATION X, 2005
Est: €2,500 - €3,500
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) LANDFALL VARIATION X, 2005 charcoal on paper signed and dated lower left; with Rubicon Gallery label on reverse h:27.75 w:39 in. Provenance: Rubicon Gallery, Dublin; Private collection
Whyte's
Sep. 27, 2023
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) Landfall Variations VI (2005) Charcoal on paper, 71 x 100cm (28 x 39½) Signed and dated (20)'05 Provenance: With Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, label verso
Est: €3,000 - €5,000
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) Landfall Variations VI (2005) Charcoal on paper, 71 x 100cm (28 x 39½) Signed and dated (20)'05 Provenance: With Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, label verso
Adam's
Sep. 27, 2023
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) On Erris Head Acrylic on paper, 18 x 19cm (7 x 7½)
Est: €1,500 - €2,000
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) On Erris Head Acrylic on paper, 18 x 19cm (7 x 7½)
Adam's
May. 31, 2023
Donald Teskey RHA (b. 1956) Valley Walk II Acrylic on paper, 56 x 77cm (22 x 30¼) Provenance: With Oliver Sears Gallery, Dublin, label verso
Est: €12,000 - €16,000
Donald Teskey RHA (b. 1956) Valley Walk II Acrylic on paper, 56 x 77cm (22 x 30¼) Provenance: With Oliver Sears Gallery, Dublin, label verso
Adam's
Apr. 18, 2023
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) Turn in the Weather
Est: €20,000 - €30,000
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) Turn in the Weather acrylic on paper signed 'Teskey' lower right h:76 w:105 cm. Provenance: Oliver Sears Gallery, Dublin where purchased by the present owner Exhibited: The Hunt Museum Limerick 'Weather Gauge', December 2016 - February 2017 (illustrated in exhibition catologue); Royal Hiberian Academy, Dublin, May - August 2017 no.507; The Hunt Museum Limerick, 'Wild Atlantic Way: Irish Life and Landscape' July - October 2021 (illustraded on p.49 of the exhibition catologue) Stays at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in Ballycastle, North Mayo, have been central in the shift in focus of Donald Teskey's work from the urban to the rural or, in the case of the huge, daunting coastline extending west from Ballycastle, the extreme rural. His first painting excursions to the West Coast came in the 1990, by which time he had established a solid reputation as, initially, a gifted draughtsman with a unique take on the characteristic of urban space, and then as a strong, gestural painter who treated the urban environment as a landscape. Born in Co Limerick of Palatine descent, Teskey studied at Limerick School of Art and Design. Unusually, by the time he graduated he'd opted for graphic media, producing atmospherically, haunting treatments of windswept, anomalous urban spaces, underscored with a slight unease. Moving to Dublin, he explored the swooping topography of Milltown, then made allegorical compositions centered on daredevil circus acts. When he turned to painting, he delighted in the complexity of Dublin's complex, labyrinthine levels and spaces, alert to the play of light and weather on the architectural and infrastructural fabric. Western harbours and the looming Atlantic presented him with new challenges and, as it worked out, opportunities. He embraced the challenge of the western seaboard's tidal realm, the big weather and quicksilver light. Over time, he found a vigorous painterly means of conveying the optical and physical play of elemental forces involved in the epic cycle of tides and seasons, as in this fine, bracing work from his Hunt Museum exhibition, Weather Gauge. Aidan Dunne, March 2023
Morgan O'Driscoll
Mar. 06, 2023
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) DOWNPATRICK HEAD II, 1997
Est: €15,000 - €20,000
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) DOWNPATRICK HEAD II, 1997 oil on paper signed lower right; titled on Rubicon Gallery label on reverse h:23 w:30 in. Provenance: Rubicon Gallery, Dublin; Private collection
Whyte's
Mar. 06, 2023
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) AUTUMN COASTLINE
Est: €20,000 - €30,000
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) AUTUMN COASTLINE acrylic on paper signed lower left h:28 w:38 in. Provenance: de Veres, 13 October 2008, lot 84; Private collection
Whyte's
Mar. 06, 2023
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) DOCKLANDS VII, 2002
Est: €30,000 - €40,000
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) DOCKLANDS VII, 2002 oil on canvas signed, titled, dated and with Art First [London] label on reverse h:32 w:40 in. Provenance: Art First, London; Private collection; Adam's, 28 March 2007, lot 79; Private collection Donald Teskey's Docklands series of paintings coincide with a consolidation of a significant broadening of his work. That is, a phase when the coastal landscape of the west of Ireland became a vital source of inspiration for him. Previously, he had been fascinated by aspects of Dublin's local topography: especially the swooping spaces of the Dodder valley around Milltown and its viaduct, and the venerable industrial fabric largely shaped by the Guinness brewery around James Street. Then, from the mid-1990s, he went to stay at the Ballinglen Art Foundation at Ballycastle on the North Mayo coast, and he also visited West Cork, including a trip to Cape Clear Island. In time, of course, the epic, rocky coastline of North Mayo absorbed more and more of his attention. Halfway between the historic, urban environment and the pure, wild natural realm of sea cliffs, the weather-worn harbour towns of the southwest offered an irresistible challenge. On the western seaboard, the Atlantic is dominant, vast and inescapable, shaping, scouring and defining the terrain. In retrospect it is as if, when Teskey was back in Dublin, he couldn't get the Atlantic out of his mind, and was prompted to turn his attention to the sea at his doorstep, the Irish Sea. His Docklands paintings explore the edges of the tidal Liffey, then a relatively unchanged, deeply weathered sector of the city, curiously intimate with its close mix of industry and habitation. In his paintings it has the same, edge-of-the-world quality of the worn cliffs and the tiny harbours, a reminder that Dublin was and is a port city, wrapped around a bay. It is also, like the western coast, illuminated by a lively, watery light, the vast mirror of the sea. Where the artist had previously painted the city as landscape, now his subject is between city and landscape or, more accurately, seascape. Of Palatine descent, Donald Teskey was born in Co Limerick and studied at Limerick School of Art and Design. His early work was, unusually, entirely graphic (slightly uncanny evocation of anomalous urban spaces), and he continued to make drawings when he moved to Dublin. He began to paint gradually until eventually it became his dominant means of working (often using plasters' trowels and knives rather than brushes). He is long established as Ireland's foremost contemporary landscape artist. Aidan Dunne, February 2023
Whyte's
Mar. 01, 2023
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) Castletownshend Looking North Acrylic on paper laid on canvas, 76 x 59cm (30 x 23¼'') Signed Provenance: With Jorgensen Fine Art, Dublin, gallery label verso.
Est: €8,000 - €12,000
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) Castletownshend Looking North Acrylic on paper laid on canvas, 76 x 59cm (30 x 23¼'') Signed Provenance: With Jorgensen Fine Art, Dublin, gallery label verso.
Adam's
Nov. 28, 2022
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) WEEKDAY, 1995
Est: €4,000 - €6,000
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) WEEKDAY, 1995 oil on paper signed and dated lower right; with Rubicon Gallery label on reverse h:15.25 w:19.50 in. Provenance: Rubicon Gallery, Dublin; Private collection
Whyte's
Nov. 28, 2022
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) UNTITLED, 2008
Est: €2,000 - €3,000
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) UNTITLED, 2008 charcoal on Fabriano paper signed and dated lower left h:22.50 w:30 in. Provenance: Whyte's, 26 May 2014, lot 108; Private collection
Whyte's
Sep. 28, 2022
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) Broadhaven Bay V Acrylic on paper, 76 x 105cm (30 x 41¼) Signed One of the leading Irish artists of his generation, Donald Teskey is so well known as a superbly tactile painter of coastal landscapes, concentrat
Est: €15,000 - €25,000
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) Broadhaven Bay V Acrylic on paper, 76 x 105cm (30 x 41¼) Signed One of the leading Irish artists of his generation, Donald Teskey is so well known as a superbly tactile painter of coastal landscapes, concentrated on the sea, it can be hard to credit that he devoted a considerable part of his early career to drawing. More, his drawings were of the city. When he turned to painting, urban subject matter continued to dominate. But his work, whether drawing or painting, was always dynamic, always in thrall to the rush and flow of light, wind and air through the topography of street and alley, railway and canal, and through anomalous open spaces. In retrospect, we can see his rendering of areas of, say, Milltown or Dublin 8, as, literally, urban landscapes, with for example the industrial expanses of the Guinness complex around Jamess St interpreted as manmade cliffs and canyons. Of Palatine descent, Teskey was born in Rathkeale, and studied at Limerick School of Art and Design. Limerick city featured in his early, exceptionally accomplished drawings, but he had long been based in Dublin by the time he was seriously drawn back to the west. In the mid-1990s, he was invited to visit the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in Ballycastle on the north Mayo coast. A monumental, uncompromising terrain was at his doorstep. As he observed, his paintings were built on the armature of urban structure, and for a time he did paint the structural fabric of Ballycastle and its surroundings. Besides returning often to Mayo, he also stayed at Ballinskelligs in Co Kerry and on the West Cork coast. Gradually he moved beyond the coastal infrastructure of coastal villages, piers and harbours to address the sea itself. As he put it: It was a question of finding an organic structure that allows the paint to speak. He found that structure in the elemental clash of sea and shore. The moment when a wave hits rock crystallises adynamic balance of matter and energy. This oil is an exceptionally pure expression of the artists fascination with that moment of impact, when you are standing down on the rocks and the vast energy of the ocean breaches the steadfast boundary of the shore. He has said that he aims to capture exactly that moment in paint. Aidan Dunne, August 2022
Adam's
Sep. 26, 2022
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) SHORELINE II, 2001
Est: €25,000 - €35,000
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) SHORELINE II, 2001 oil on canvas signed and dated lower right; signed, dated, titled and with Rubicon Gallery label on reverse h:24 w:30 in. Provenance: Rubicon Gallery, Dublin; Private collection; Adam's, 28 March 2007, lot 80; Private collection Exhibited: 'Donald Teskey', Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, 3-28 April 2001 "Lots of people paint the sea and everyone seems to do it differently it wasn't how I came to painting... I actually wanted to paint the land, the rocks, the shadows and the cracks in the rocks, the drawing, the way that nature seemed to just make paintings all of its own within the geological formations around it and the sea was a kind of scrape of paint in the background and that's how it began really as paint on the surface." (1) Donald Teskey's early work focused on urban landscape, the drama of light and its interaction between architectural settings and the patterns thrown up by the different elements within that space. Later, when he ventured further afield beyond the confines of the cities he tackled vast rural environments with the same approach and found it worked and to great effect. The catalyst for this change in direction was a fellowship at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in 1996 which brought him to Ballycastle in North Mayo. Returned residencies took place there in 2001 (when the present work was executed) and in 2002. The wildness of the sea is reflected in Teskey's physical application of the paint which is aggressively impastoed, often applied with a trowel rather than the traditional brush while the scale of the canvases increased to accommodate the great expanse of his subject. The Rubicon exhibition in 2001, which included the present work, focused firmly on the sea, Irish coastline and maritime architecture gleaned from several trips to West Cork, Connemara and North Mayo. Adelle Hughes August 2022 Footnote: 1 "And that's how it began" Donald Teskey explains his love of painting the sea | The Works Presents 2 June 2020 https://www.rte.ie/player/
Whyte's
Sep. 26, 2022
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) COMPOSITION WITH STEPS, DÚN LAOGHAIRE AND MONKSTOWN, COUNTY DUBLIN, 2003
Est: €30,000 - €50,000
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) COMPOSITION WITH STEPS, DÚN LAOGHAIRE AND MONKSTOWN, COUNTY DUBLIN, 2003 oil on canvas; (unframed) signed lower left; signed, titled and dated on reverse h:48 w:52 in. Donald Teskey was born in County Limerick and graduated from Limerick College of Art and Design with a Diploma in Fine Art in 1978. His expert draughtsmanship set apart his work during the 1980s when he held several significant solo exhibitions. Since his emergence on the art scene his practice has resulted in an extensive and important body of work which puts the Irish landscape - both urban and rural - centre stage. Testament to this is his membership of Aosdána, established by The Arts Council in 1981 to honour artists whose work has made an outstanding contribution to the arts in Ireland, and to encourage and assist members in devoting their energies fully to their art. Membership, which is by invitation from current members, is limited to 250 individuals. Teskey has been the recipient of numerous awards, fellowships and residencies both nationally and internationally and his work has been exhibited in the UK, USA, Canada, China, Germany, France, Finland and South Africa. Collections include the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Arts Council of Ireland, corporate and private collections worldwide. The year the present work was painted, Teskey was awarded a fellowship to The Vermont Studio Centre in the US and he was elected a member of the Royal Hibernian Academy. This autumn - 9 September to 23 October 2022 - the RHA celebrates Teskey's work with an exhibition entitled 'Decade' which explores his painting career over the past ten years.
Whyte's
Jun. 06, 2022
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) EVENING SHORELINE
Est: €25,000 - €35,000
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) EVENING SHORELINE oil on canvas signed on reverse h:31.50 w:39.50 in. A really fine example of a subject that Donald Teskey began to explore in the latter half of the 1990s and at which he came to excel. He began as a draughtsman of exceptional skill, conjuring anomalous, gritty urban spaces subtly infused with a sense of the uncanny or unsettling, with scraps of paper suspended on gusts of wind. That was in Limerick, where he studied at LSAD. When he moved to Dublin, he continued to draw, developing those cryptic scraps into allegories of emotional life in images of acrobats in flight and, as he explored his surroundings, sweeping, vertiginous views of the dramatic topography around Milltown. When he set about painting he ventured further afield again, envisaging areas of the city, including the industrial tracts of Dublin 8, as windswept urban landscapes, with streets as valleys, canals as rivers. In retrospect, his venturing west, into the coastal landscape dominated by the Atlantic, was logical. In practice, the catalyst was an invitation to work at the Ballinglen Art Foundation in Ballycastle, North Mayo, with a magnificent coastline on the doorstep. Often, in his paintings, he considers the habitable, constructed fabric of houses, towns, harbours, on the ocean's edge, but increasingly he also addressed a pared-down world: the tide driven ocean, the scoured rocky coast, distant headlands and ever-changing skies. Over time he's become impressively expert at broaching these elements, and their fierce interaction, in boldly managed paint. The tremendous verve and freedom of his method is never just for show, rather it is perfectly matched to the character and detail of the subject. Aidan Dunne May 2022
Whyte's
Apr. 26, 2022
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) Towards Bellmullet II (1998)
Est: €12,000 - €18,000
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) Towards Bellmullet II (1998) oil on paper signed lower left and dated '98, titled verso h:57.50 w:78.80 cm. Provenance: Rubicon Gallery, Dublin (label verso); James Adams & Bonham's, Dublin, 3rd December 2008, lot 21; Private Collection Donald Teskey works the twists of the wind into the invigorating paint surface in his vivid evocation of the weather-scoured landscape of northwest Mayo. The broken, glittering light further indicates the restless, fast-moving clouds, and the two figures present - one leaning into the wind, one looking warily into the distance from beneath a wool cap - both evidence the inescapable rule of the elements.
Morgan O'Driscoll
Apr. 26, 2022
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) Estuary III (Pigeon House) (1997/98)
Est: €20,000 - €30,000
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) Estuary III (Pigeon House) (1997/98) oil on board signed lower right, titled and dated '97/'98 verso h:122.30 w:162.70 cm. Provenance: Rubicon Gallery, Dublin; Private Collection In the early 1960s, JG Ballard wrote a remarkable short story, Now Wakes the Sea, in which the protagonist, though living way inland, dreams (or has visions) every night of the ocean encroaching: "Again at night Mason heard the sounds of the approaching sea, the muffled thunder of breakers rolling up the nearby streets…". It's tempting to see Donald Teskey's mid-1990s stay at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation on the North Mayo coast as leaving him, like Mason, haunted by the immense presence of the sea. From that point on the sea, particularly the Atlantic, from North Mayo to the West Cork coast, gained an increasingly significant position in his painting and indeed shaped the nature and direction of his work. One of Ireland's best-known contemporary artists, Teskey, of Palatine descent, was born in Co Limerick and studied at Limerick School of Art and Design. His early work was, unusually, entirely graphic: marginal urban spaces charged with a feeling of the uncanny. After he moved to Dublin, he encompassed the urban geography around him: Milltown and the inner city. Gradually he turned to painting, treating the same subject matter and viewing the city as landscape. A sense of movement, and a note of drama, are always present. These qualities - viewing the architecture and topography of the city as one would nature, subject to the dynamism of changing light and weather - became progressively enhanced by his experience of the ocean's relentless weathering on the coastal fabric. When he turned back to Dublin, it was with an increased appreciation of the city's edgy position, by the sea and in many ways enmeshed with the sea, open to the elements and energised by them, as here, in this vigorous Pigeon House view. Aidan Dunne, March 2022
Morgan O'Driscoll
Mar. 30, 2022
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) Castletownsend Looking North Acrylic on paper laid on canvas, 76 x 59cm (30 x 23¼'') Signed Provenance: With Jorgensen Fine Art, gallery label verso.
Est: €10,000 - €15,000
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) Castletownsend Looking North Acrylic on paper laid on canvas, 76 x 59cm (30 x 23¼'') Signed Provenance: With Jorgensen Fine Art, gallery label verso.
Adam's
Mar. 30, 2022
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) Three Figures and One ('Ways to Kill the Time') Oil on paper, 42 x 39.8cm (16½ x 15½'') Signed and dated (19)'97 Provenance: With Rubicon Gallery, Dublin.
Est: €3,000 - €5,000
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) Three Figures and One ('Ways to Kill the Time') Oil on paper, 42 x 39.8cm (16½ x 15½'') Signed and dated (19)'97 Provenance: With Rubicon Gallery, Dublin.
Adam's
Dec. 08, 2021
Donald Teskey ( b.1956) Farmhouse, Coomerkane I, 2016 Acrylic on paper, 38.1 x 40.6cm, (15 x 16) Signed; also signed, inscribed and dated 2016 verso
Est: €7,000 - €10,000
Donald Teskey ( b.1956) Farmhouse, Coomerkane I, 2016 Acrylic on paper, 38.1 x 40.6cm, (15 x 16) Signed; also signed, inscribed and dated 2016 verso
Adam's
Oct. 26, 2021
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) Fog Latitude
Est: €15,000 - €25,000
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) Fog Latitude acrylic on paper signed lower left h:76.30 w:105 cm. Provenance: Oliver Sears Gallery, Dublin where purchased by the current owner Exhibited: The Hunt Museum, Limerick, "Weather Gauge" exhibition, December 2016/February 2017 (illustrated); Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, May/August 2017 No.506 (illustrated). Donald Teskey is by now indelibly associated with paintings that, collectively, explore the dramatic shoreline of the western seaboard from north to south. He began, though, as an urban artist, and as a draughtsman, not a painter. When he graduated from the Limerick School of Art and Design in the late 1970s he was making intricate, technically virtuosic drawings of run-down urban precincts, usually with a slight air of the uncanny about them. When he moved to Dublin there followed startling, unconventional, night-time views of parts of the city and, metaphors for the roller coaster aspects of emotional life, of circus acrobats in flight. In the early 1990s, his initial turn to painting produced urban landscapes, exciting, highly charged accounts of Dublin settings that visualized thoroughfares as canyons and rail lines as rivers. In time he extended his gaze to the west, with stays in West Cork and then, decisively, an invitation to the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in North Mayo. That introduced him to the vast, rugged land- and seascape of the unadorned Atlantic and led him to work in a new way, directly engaging with the frenetic give-and-take of time, tide and weather. The experience was immensely stimulating for his painting and the immediacy, vitality and daring of his painted responses to the subject matter won him an exceptionally wide and enthusiastic following among the art public and established his formidable position in contemporary Irish art. Not the least attractive feature of his pictures is their accessibility: we are all familiar with the weather, and we recognize it when we see it. Aidan Dunne, September 2021
Morgan O'Driscoll
Sep. 29, 2021
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) Untitled Drawing II Charcoal on paper, 76 x 104cm (30 x 41'') Signed and dated (20)'07
Est: €4,000 - €5,000
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) Untitled Drawing II Charcoal on paper, 76 x 104cm (30 x 41'') Signed and dated (20)'07
Adam's
Sep. 27, 2021
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) WILD WOODLANDS, 1999
Est: €10,000 - €15,000
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) WILD WOODLANDS, 1999 oil on paper signed and dated lower left h:23 w:31 in. Provenance: Whyte's, 17 September 2002, lot 18; Private collection A view of part of Howth Castle grounds to the rear of the Deerpark Hotel.
Whyte's
Sep. 27, 2021
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) WATEREDGE XIV, 2006
Est: €20,000 - €30,000
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) WATEREDGE XIV, 2006 acrylic on paper signed and dated lower right; with Rubicon Gallery label on reverse h:28 w:36 in. Provenance: Rubicon Gallery, Dublin; Private collection In the mid-1990s Donald Teskey spent a period as artist in residence at the Ballinglen Foundation in Ballycastle, Co. Mayo. The experience awakened an interest in the elemental forces that shape Ireland's coastline - an interest which continues to occupy the artist to this day. Teskey has since worked at several locations in Connemara, Mayo and West Cork, sketching and producing watercolour studies, which he then revisits in the studio to paint large scale oils on paper and canvas. Wielding a pair of plasterer's trowels - one used as a palette and the other as a palette knife - Teskey applies his paint in thick, tactile layers, which are then scraped back and repainted in a slow, deliberative process. These powerful seascapes fuse elements of recognisable locations with passages of all but abstract paint work. Teskey's sea paintings were featured in a group show, 'H2O', held in 2004 at the Model Arts and Niland Gallery, Sligo, and in a solo exhibition, 'Tidal Narratives', held in 2005 at the Limerick City Gallery of Art. From then to date Teskey has continued to create these great depictions of the sea crashing into land and to include them in major exhibitions at NGI, IMMA and The Hunt Museum.
Whyte's
Sep. 27, 2021
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) SEPTEMBER COAST, 2006
Est: €3,000 - €5,000
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) SEPTEMBER COAST, 2006 oil on canvas; (unframed) signed lower left; signed, titled, dated and with Art First label on reverse h:12 w:12 in. Provenance: Art First Contemporary Art, London; Private condition
Whyte's
Sep. 27, 2021
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) FROM THE RED MILL, 2003
Est: €8,000 - €12,000
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) FROM THE RED MILL, 2003 oil on paper signed and dated lower left; with Art First [London] label on reverse h:18 w:22.50 in. Provenance: Art First Contemporary Art, London; Private collection
Whyte's
Jul. 08, 2021
Â§ DONALD TESKEY (B. 1956)
Est: £1,200 - £1,800
Â§ DONALD TESKEY (B. 1956) DONALD TESKEY (B. 1956) Landfall Variation XI signed Teskey '05 (lower left) charcoal on paper 71 x 100 cm (28 x 39 1/2 in) PROVENANCE: with Rubicon Gallery, Dublin Sale, Whyte's, Dublin, 25 May 2015, lot 108, where purchased by the present owner's family
Chiswick Auctions
May. 31, 2021
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) FIGURE AND YELLOW BUSH, 1999
Est: €8,000 - €12,000
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) FIGURE AND YELLOW BUSH, 1999 oil on paper signed and dated lower right h:23.25 w:31.25 in. Provenance: Lavitt Gallery, Cork; Private collection; Whyte's, 21 February 2006, lot 171; Private collection Exhibited: Cork Art Society Exhibition, Cork, August 1999
Whyte's
Mar. 22, 2021
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) COASTAL REPORT IV - DOWNPATRICK HEAD, COUNTY MAYO, 2016
Est: €20,000 - €30,000
signed lower left
Whyte's
Dec. 15, 2020
DONALD TESKEY RHA (b.1956) Abandoned Pickup I, 2006 Acrylic on paper, 30.5 x 30.5cm Provenance: With Rubicon Gallery, label verso.
Est: €1,500 - €2,500
DONALD TESKEY RHA (b.1956) Abandoned Pickup I, 2006 Acrylic on paper, 30.5 x 30.5cm Provenance: With Rubicon Gallery, label verso.
Adam's
Dec. 09, 2020
Donald Teskey (b.1956) Coastal Report I - Erris, 2016 Acrylic on paper, 77 x 105cm (30¼ x 41¼'') Signed One of the leading Irish artists of his generation, Donald Teskey is so well known as a superbly tactile painter of coastal landscapes, concentr
Est: €12,000 - €16,000
Donald Teskey (b.1956) Coastal Report I - Erris, 2016 Acrylic on paper, 77 x 105cm (30¼ x 41¼'') Signed One of the leading Irish artists of his generation, Donald Teskey is so well known as a superbly tactile painter of coastal landscapes, concentrated on the sea, it can be hard to credit that he devoted a considerable part of his early career to drawing. More, his drawings were of the city. When he turned to painting, urban subject matter continued to dominate. But his work, whether drawing or painting, was always dynamic, always in thrall to the rush and flow of light, wind and air through the topography of street and alley, railway and canal, and through anomalous open spaces. In retrospect, we can see his rendering of areas of, say, Milltown or Dublin 8, as, literally, urban landscapes, with for example the industrial expanses of the Guinness complex around James's St interpreted as manmade cliffs and canyons. Of Palatine descent, Teskey was born in Rathkeale, and studied at Limerick School of Art and Design. Limerick city featured in his early, exceptionally accomplished drawings, but he had long been based in Dublin by the time he was seriously drawn back to the west. In the mid-1990s, he was invited to visit the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in Ballycastle on the north Mayo coast. A monumental, uncompromising terrain was at his doorstep. As he observed, his paintings were built on the armature of urban structure, and for a time he did paint the structural fabric of Ballycastle and its surroundings. Besides returning often to Mayo, he also stayed at Ballinskelligs in Co Kerry and on the West Cork coast. Gradually he moved beyond the coastal infrastructure of coastal villages, piers and harbours to address the sea itself. As he put it: It was a question of finding an organic structure that allows the paint to speak. He found that structure in the elemental clash of sea and shore. The moment when a wave hits rock crystallises a dynamic balance of matter and energy. This oil is an exceptionally pure expression of the artist's fascination with that moment of impact, when you are standing down on the rocks and the vast energy of the ocean breaches the steadfast boundary of the shore. He has said that he aims to capture exactly that moment in paint. Aidan Dunne, 2020
Adam's
Dec. 07, 2020
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) BROKEN GATE, NEAR MILLTOWN, DUBLIN
Est: €5,000 - €7,000
signed lower left
Whyte's
Dec. 07, 2020
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) GRAND CANAL PLACE II, 1998
Est: €5,000 - €7,000
signed lower left; titled and dated on reverse
Whyte's
Dec. 07, 2020
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) CHURCH STREET, FR MATHEW BRIDGE, 1999
Est: €12,000 - €18,000
signed, titled and dated on reverse; also with inscribed Rubicon Gallery label on reverse
Whyte's
Dec. 07, 2020
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) FIGURE AND YELLOW BUSH, 1999
Est: €12,000 - €18,000
signed and dated lower right
Whyte's
Dec. 07, 2020
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) COASTAL REPORT II - ERRIS, 2016
Est: €12,000 - €18,000
signed lower right
Whyte's
Oct. 27, 2020
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) Headland
Est: €4,000 - €6,000
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) Headland acrylic on paper signed lower left and titled verso h:53 w:56.50 cm. Provenance: Private Collection
Morgan O'Driscoll
Oct. 27, 2020
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) Long Shore II (2014)
Est: €12,000 - €18,000
Donald Teskey RHA (b.1956) Long Shore II (2014) acrylic on paper signed lower left and titled verso h:76.20 w:101.50 cm. Provenance: The Russell Gallery, Co. Clare (label verso); Private Collection Of Palatine descent, Donald Teskey was born in Co Limerick and attended LSAD, where he began to produce highly accomplished drawings of the harsher aspects of the urban environment. City settings continued to provide inspiration when he began to use paint in Dublin, but from the mid-1990s visits to the west coast, from Cork to Mayo, propelled his work in a new direction and he is now probably best known for his superb, atmospheric coastal landscapes. At their heart is the clash of sea and rocky shore and this, with its palpable sense of saturation as rain adds to the mix, is a virtuosic example.
Morgan O'Driscoll

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