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Oil Painting Canadian Ducks Pintails Flushed Out Wetlands In British Columbia By Hugh Monahan

24,986.00 NIS

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Experience the beauty of British Columbia's wetlands with this stunning ornithology hunting oil painting by artist Hugh Monahan. Featuring Canadian pintails flushed out from their natural habitat, this painting captures the serenity and wonder of nature. Add a touch of elegance to your home with this unique and expertly crafted piece.
Title Duck Species “Pintails Flushed” By Hugh Monahan signed and dated 1950.
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 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. Unusually for a bird with such a large range, it has no geographical subspecies if the possibly conspecific duck Eaton's pintail is considered to be a separate species. This is a large duck, and the male's long central tail feathers give rise to the species' English and scientific names. Both sexes have blue-grey bills and grey legs and feet. The drake is more striking, having a thin white stripe running from the back of its chocolate-coloured head down its neck to its mostly white undercarriage.
The drake also has attractive grey, brown, and black patterning on its back and sides. The hen's plumage is more subtle and subdued, with drab brown feathers similar to those of other female dabbling ducks. Hens make a coarse quack and the drakes a flute-like whistle. The northern pintail is a bird of open wetlands which nests on the ground, often some distance from water. It feeds by dabbling for plant food and adds small invertebrates to its diet during the nesting season. It is highly gregarious when not breeding, forming large mixed flocks with other species of duck. This duck's population is affected by predators, parasites and avian diseases. Human activities, such as agriculture, hunting and fishing, have also had a significant impact on numbers. Nevertheless, owing to the huge range and large population of this species, it is not threatened globally.
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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Condition report ,offered in overall fine used condition.
Canvas is in original unlined condition, one small back wooden wedge slot key is missing from the back, Having good fair canvas tension. No cracking visible. One impressed mark top right, done when the paint was wet. A few tiny pinpoint losses at bottom edge. Arcing grey mark at left. Grey/brown splashes from a liquid in the upper right quadrant. No restoration visible. Old yellowed varnish, visible where it has pooled thickly in the troughs of the canvas and paint giving an overall yellow tone. Some ingrained dirt and an few flyspots and surface dirt.
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Dimensions in centimetres of the frame

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