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Hughie O’Donoghue: Scorched Earth

Marlborough Fine Art is pleased to present 'Scorched Earth', a solo exhibition of new works by Hughie O’Donoghue. On display are O'Donoghue's large-scale paintings which reimagine the seminal late works Van Gogh made in Arles and St. Remy in the south of France.
Marlborough London
Mar 15th – Apr 14th
London, 6 Albemarle StreetMap & Full Hours
, 'Lavender Field,' 2017, Marlborough London

Hughie O'Donoghue

Lavender Field, 2017

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, 'The Painter Van Gogh III,' 2017, Marlborough London

Hughie O'Donoghue

The Painter Van Gogh III, 2017

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, 'The Painter Van Gogh IV,' 2017-2018, Marlborough London

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The Painter Van Gogh IV, 2017-2018

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, 'A Bundle of Straw,' 2017, Marlborough London

Hughie O'Donoghue

A Bundle of Straw, 2017

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, 'Revolution Road ,' 2017-2018, Marlborough London

Hughie O'Donoghue

Revolution Road , 2017-2018

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, 'Crows Above a Grainfield III, Turbulent Indigo,' 2017, Marlborough London

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Crows Above a Grainfield III, Turbulent Indigo, 2017

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, 'The Full Heat of the Sun,' 2017-2018, Marlborough London

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The Full Heat of the Sun, 2017-2018

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Press Release

Hughie O’Donoghue often uses historic events and figures from art history as a point of departure in his work. In this exhibition, the artist questions the legacy of Vincent Van Gogh in our collective cultural memory, particularly focusing on the paintings Van Gogh made during the last two years of his life in Arles and St. Remy in the south of France.

Technically inventive and on a human scale, O’Donoghue’s richly worked new paintings revisit and reimagine the imagery observed and invented by Van Gogh as he struggled to make a lucid vision manifest while his health deteriorated in demoralising circumstances. Although personally familiar with Arles, St. Remy and the setting of the Saint-Paul asylum where Van Gogh was a patient, having first visited the area in 1973, O’Donoghue has chosen to situate these paintings in his own immediate environment: the enclosed fields beside his studio. The subject therefore is brought into O’Donoghue’s own territory and field of vision.

On show are new large scale paintings which reimagine some of the seminal late works of Van Gogh, in particular the lost painting The Painter on the Road to Tarascon but also The Wheatfield with a Reaper and Enclosed Field with a Peasant, both shown in London as part of The Real Van Gogh at The Royal Academy 2010. The encounter with these two paintings sowed the imaginative seeds in O’Donoghue that have led to this new body of works.

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