Mid Century Oil Painting Canadian Ducks Pintails Flushed Out Duck Duck Go Wetlands British Columbia by Hugh Monahan, Framed

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1 Mid Century Hunting Sporting Oil Painting Canadian Ducks Northern Pintails Flushed Out Duck Duck Go Wetlands British Columbia By … more 1 Mid Century Hunting Sporting Oil Painting Canadian Ducks Northern Pintails Flushed Out Duck Duck Go Wetlands British Columbia By Hugh Cecil Charles Monahan.
Title Duck Species “Pintails Flushed” By Hugh Monahan signed and dated 1950.
This is an earlier very fine original high value example of his work, his paintings are known to fetch over $7500 US dollars.
Impress your guests & clients in your home or office with this hunting birds masterpiece.
Subject ornithology animal bird study of Canadian Ducks Northern Pintails in front profile view they have been just flushed out of the wetlands in British Columbia Canada and most of them are in mid flight trying to escape approaching huntsman who are out of sight. Reeds are running along the bottom view, with the water wetlands just above that meander outwards. The shore bank further up with 1 pintails still on the ground, above with mainly ovecast dark sky.
A rather nice display size with the frame being 59.5 cm wide and 49.5 cm high.
Medium oil on canvas.
Set in a traditional original fancy gilt decorative frame.
Signed by the known Irish/Canadian artist Hugh Monahan.
In our opinion this is one of his rather exceptional earlier works.
Artist biography Hugh Cecil Charles Monahan a known Irish/Canadian artist who was born in the year 1914 just after the beginning of WW1, he was born and brought up in Dublin in Ireland. It was known that his family moved & he then grew up in the sub-continent India as his father career was in the civil service. When he was older is parents wanted him to attend a boarding school back in England in the north west region. He did go back home once a year to spend some time with his parents during the Christmas holidays. Monahan did attend the Royal Hibernian art Academy. He loved working with oils and especially adored creating landscape scenes that had wildfowl with immense atmosphere. He produced a feeling of movements in his works.
Monahan combined realism together with a touch of impressionism to make full advantage of the use of light. He has exhibited in various galleries around Ireland & museums also in England in the capital London. Later in adult life he moved with his wife and children where he emigrated to Canada to the province of British Columbia & settled in the City of Vancouver. He died towards the end of 1970 when he was about to go on a sporting hunt for ducks. Monahan’s works have sold at auctions around the world.
The pintail or northern pintail (Anas acuta) is a duck species with wide geographic distribution that breeds in the northern areas of Europe and across the Palearctic and North America. It is migratory and winters south of its breeding range to the equator.
Provenance labels verso for Rowland Ward Ltd, London, high end northern shire auction & in collection of Cheshire Antiques Consultant LTD.
Highly sought after due to the collectible nature of subject animal matter such elaborate detail.
With hanging thread on the back ready for immediate home wall display.
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Dimensions in centimetres of the frame

High (49.5 cm)
Wide (59.5 cm)
Depth thickness of frame (5 cm) less