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Edward Delaney

Edward Delaney (1930 - 2009) was active/lived in Ireland.  Edward Delaney is known for Bronze expressive figurative sculpture-public commissions, religious subjects.

Edward Delaney (1930-2009)

One of the leading figures in Irish sculpture of the second half of the twentieth century, Edward Delaney is best known for two public bronze sculptures on show in Dublin: his statue of Wolfe Tone (1967) and his Famine Memorial (1967).  Both created using the lost-wax (cire perdue) method of bronze casting, these works exemplify his unique style of modern expressionism, developed during the 1950s and 1960s, whose minimalist (at times, skeletal) forms are said to reference holocaust and famine motifs, as well as the elongated emaciated figures and abstracts of Alberto Giacometti (1901-66).

A member of the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA), and Aosdana, Delaney's sculpture has been exhibited around the world, and is represented in many important art collections in Ireland and overseas.

In October 2009, 3 weeks after his death, Delaney's bronze King & Queen sold at auction at Adams in Dublin for €190,000, a world re   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5874 characters.]  Artist bio

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