Peter Murray investigates a key period in the career of Thurloe Conolly, a one-time member of the White Stag group, who emigrated to France in the mid 1960s
In recent years, the White Stag Group, led by the Hungarian artist Basil Rakoczi, has become identified as one of the key movements in 20th-century Irish art. The Group flourished during the early 1940s, when, seeking refuge from the War in Europe, a variety of artists and intellectuals settled in Dublin. Bringing with them an interest in psychoanalysis and the subconscious, the new arrivals introduced local artists to developments in central European Modernism
