€340
Star Lot: Tom Byrne (b. 1962) An original Tom Byrne (b. 1962) very large acrylic on canvas painting titled 'The Siege of the Four Courts 1922'. Features the titular Historic scene. Rendered in a strong cool colour palette with shades of blues, teal greens and lilacs with warm orange highlights. Great achievement of colour achieved through palette knife technique. Portrays texture through the painting. Signed lower left. Housed in a white wooden frame. Titled to verso. This piece was exhibited at the Centenary Exhibition Dublin 2022.
MM: 106 x 86 cm including frame.
Byrne has a very strong auction history with works fetching upwards of €3000 at Whyte's.
Tom Byrne was born in Dublin in 1962. He studied at Dun Laoghaire College of Art and Design, where he trained in the Bauhaus tradition, a revolutionary 20th century school of artistic training which integrated craftsmanship, art and technology. Byrne describes, "religion, politics and celebrity all play equally important roles in my work". His strong interest in current affairs along with his punk mentality merges to create an artist who is in tune with the world around him. Informed by spirituality and popular culture alike, the artist thinks of himself as a contemporary artist first and foremost, selecting beauty from everyday experience and channeling it into painterly abstractions.
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