The Walled Garden (Algarve period), Patrick Swift (1927-1983), Watercolour, 41.5 x 61cm, Signed and dated '65





COTTON BOG, WICKLOW, Patrick Swift (1927-83),Watercolour, c.1980-83


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Swift paid a visit to Dublin a few years before he died, for his daughter’s wedding, and took notes and photographs of Co Wicklow landscapes for some large paintings he was planning. His family originally had come from Wicklow to Dublin...
- Brian Fallon, 'The fall and rise of Patrick Swift', The Irish Times, June 11, 1992

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Wicklow Landscape (Algarve period), Patrick Swift (1927-83), Watercolour, 1982/3 (poor quality reproduction)





Figures sleeping (Oonagh?), Patrick Swift, pencil on paper, early 1960s (poor quality reproduction)





Girl, Algarve, Patrick Swift (1927-83), crayon on paper (poor quality reproduction)





Nude with raised knee, Patrick Swift (1927-83), pencil and watercolour on paper (poor quality reproduction)





Nudes, Patrick Swift (1927-83), charcoal on paper (poor quality reproduction)





Mickey & Alice, by Patrick Swift (1927-83), charcoal on paper, c.1980 (poor quality reproduction)





David Wright, sketch, pen and ink, c.1970; Reproduced in Lisbon: a portrait and a guide (poor quality reproduction)





Oonagh Swift, by Patrick Swift, pen and ink; Reproduced in Lisbon: a portrait and a guide (poor quality reproduction)





Swift's maternal grandparents, charcoal on paper, c.1980; from the photograph shown below (poor quality reproduction)







Photograph of Patrick Swift(?) and Patrick Kavanagh in McDaid's - Brian O'Nolan & Kavanagh in McDaid's, 1983, charcoal on paper; drawn with his left hand (poor quality reproduction)





Patrick Swift, watercolour, Algarve period (poor quality reproduction)





Patrick Swift, Lanscape with Plateau, c.1975, watercolour on paper (poor quality reproduction)





Patrick Swift, Wicklow (Algarve period), watercolour, c.1981 (poor quality reproduction)





Patrick Swift, mixed media with cross-hatching, 1976 (poor quality reproduction)





Nude with bent knee, Patrick Swift, pencil and light brown wash (poor quality reproduction)



George Venn, by Patrick Swift, watercolour, Algarve period (poor quality reproduction)





Nude with Yucca, pen and ink with cross-hatching and watercolour (poor quality reproduction)





Patrick Swift (1927-83), Pegasus, 1980s, Watercolour and ink on paper (poor quality reproduction)





Patrick Swift (1927-83), Landscape Study of Wicklow, Watercolour, 1980s (poor quality reproduction)



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