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Hugh Lane Art Gallery Dublin

Legacy
Patrick Hickey achieved a lot in his life; marriage, family, becoming a successful artist, architect and lecturer. He was viewed as a forward person, and he valued art as sheer pleasure. Hickey’s ideas about art and architecture have influenced the future of art in Ireland and elsewhere. He founded modern art graphics in Ireland. Hickey had wanted to be a musician and he put musical notes in all the bank notes that he created. . Hickey’s work is being carried out to this day in the graphic studio of Dublin. They are following technics that Hickey portrayed. The graphic studio Dublin held an exhibition in 2000 with Hickey’s landscape prints from the 1970s. Hickey’s art is on sale at auction on invaluable.com since 2015. There is four pages on the website full of Hickey’s art available for purchase sold at auction. He left behind an extensive art collection. His art is still portrayed in galleries around Ireland such as, The arts council of Ireland; Crawford municipal gallery, Cork; Hugh Lane art gallery, Dublin; Limerick city gallery of art; national self-portrait collection and university of Limerick. The UK independent said after Hickey’s death in 1998, that he had the most influence on art and design In Ireland compared to other artists.

Hickey left behind his wife and three children, Twinkie, Sharon, and Joby. Joby Hickey became an artist like his father. Joby appeared as a child on the old 50 pound note that Hickey designed. Joby studied in fine art in Dun Laoghaire Art School where Hickey had a lot of influence. Joby has gone on to be awarded in many areas of the art industry. His most recent is the 2016 The Pearse Centre in remembrance of the 1916 Easter rising. Hickey's Victorian home in Dun Laoghaire went on sale in February 2022 for two million euro.