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Hughie O'Donoghue, b.1953

Crossing the Rapido VII2003

‘Crossing the Rapido VII’ is one of a series of explorations by O’Donoghue of the personal and the universal, combining the artist’s father’s history of war in Italy in 1940 with age-old depictions of battle and struggle and Christian religious imagery from the tradition of Michelangelo, Titian and Rubens.

Medium	Oil on aluminium panel in three parts with inkjet on gampi tissue
Dimensions	245 x 198 cm each
Credit Line	IMMA Collection: Heritage Gift, 2004
Item Number	IMMA.1764
Copyright	For copyright information, please contact the IMMA Collections team: [email protected].
Tags	Painting 2003 Hughie O'Donoghue

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Hughie O'Donoghue, Crossing the Rapido VII, 2003, Oil on aluminium panel in three parts with inkjet on gampi tissue, 245 x 198 cm each, Collection Irish Museum of Modern Art, Heritage Gift, 2004

About the Artist

Hughie O'Donoghue b.1953

Born in Manchester, Hughie O’Donoghue now lives and works in rural Ireland. O’Donoghue has internationally since 1982 and is considered one of the leading painters of his generation. His work is represented in public collections, including the National Gallery, London, the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester and the Arts Council of England. The solo exhibition ‘Hughie O’Donoghue: Recent Paintings and Selected Works from the American Ireland Fund Donation’ was held at IMMA in 2009

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