Cecil Maguire RHA RUA (b.1930) Back for the Night -1992 oil on board signed lower right & dated '

Cecil Maguire RHA RUA (b.1930) Back for the Night -1992 oil on board signed lower right & dated '92 50½ x 76cm (19.88 x 29.92in) Provenance: Private Collection Cecil Maguire was born in Lurgan, Northern Ireland in 1930 and graduated from the Queen's University Belfast in 1951 He then took a post at Lurgan College as the Senior English Master. In 1967 he became an associate of the Royal Ulster Academy. Maguire began exhibiting at the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1971 In 1981 he retired from teaching at Lurgan College to concentrate on painting and traveling. In 1993 he was a Gold Medal Award winner at the Royal Ulster Academy. Maguire now divides his time between Italy, Belfast and the West of Ireland but lives and works for a great part of the year in Roundstone, Connemarra where he feels very much at home in an area which has always been the inspiration for much of his work - an area of tranquility and ever changing landscape. Maguire has exhibited extensively in galleries such as Kenny Gallery, Oriel Gallery, Bell Gallery, and the Dawson Gallery and his works are held in many important public and private collections around the world.