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Brian O'Doherty, 1928–2022, Charles Simonds, b.1945, Patrick Ireland, 1972–2008

The Burial of Patrick Ireland, Death Mask, 2008

The Burial of Patrick Ireland, Death Mask is a 2008 work by Brian O'Doherty, Charles Simonds, Patrick Ireland.

MediumPlaster cast, paint
Credit LineIMMA Collection: Donation, 2008
Item NumberIMMA.2863.001
Copyright For copyright information, please contact the IMMA Collections team: [email protected].
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Brian O'Doherty, Charles Simonds, Patrick Ireland, The Burial of Patrick Ireland, Death Mask, 2008, Plaster cast, paint, Collection Irish Museum of Modern Art, Donation, 2008

For copyright information, please contact the IMMA Collections team: [email protected].

Brian O'Doherty

Brian O'Doherty, 1928–2022

Brian O’Doherty was born in Ireland and moved to New York in 1957. A qualified medical doctor, O’Doherty became renowned as an artist, writer, television host, and educator. Consistently exploring the multiple nature of identity, he adopted various personae, notably 'Patrick Ireland', who was buried at IMMA in 2008. Major retrospectives of O’Doherty/Ireland’s work were held at the National Museum of American Art, Dublin City Gallery, the Hugh Lane and the Grey Art Gallery, New York. Brian O'Doherty died at his apartment in Manhattan on Monday 7th of November 2022, at the age of 94.

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Charles Simonds

Charles Simonds, b.1945

American artist Charles Simonds began working with clay while studying art at the University of California, Berkeley. His early miniature ‘dwellings’ became the foundation for an art practice that encompasses sculpture, performance, street art and activism. Simonds’ dwellings have appeared in cities worldwide. He has exhibited extensively, including solo exhibitions at the Fundacion Bilbao Arte, Bilbao; the Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, and the Denver Art Museum, Colorado.

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Patrick Ireland

Patrick Ireland, 1972–2008

During the Irish Exhibition of Living Art in 1972, Brian O'Doherty, in a performance before 30 invited witnesses and assisted by artists Robert Ballagh and Brian King, undertook to sign his artworks Patrick Ireland 'until such time as the British military presence is removed from Northern Ireland'. After 36 years of making art as Patrick Ireland, O'Doherty reclaimed his birth name with the symbolic burial of his alter ego in the grounds of IMMA on the afternoon of Tuesday 20 May 2008.
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