Horse on a Seaweed Bed

Edward Delaney was one of the most distinguished Modern Irish sculptors of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Horse on a Seaweed Bed is typical of Edward Delaney's smaller bronze figurative work. The title is unusual, however, and dates from Delaney's time living in Connemara on the west coast of Ireland where seaweed beaches and horses were a common sight. The piece was cast by him in his own foundry there.

We are very grateful to Eamon Delaney, the sculptor's son, for his assistance in cataloguing this lot. Eamon is the author of Breaking the Mould, A Story of Art and Ireland, which explores his father's career and the Irish arts scene of the 1960s to 1980s.