€110
Star Lot : An eyecatching original oil on panel painting titled "Self Portrait of Artist" by the renowned Irish artist Tom Byrne. Features a frontal portrait of a striking figure dressed in a chevron patterned shirt and bold top hat boasting a red flame pattern. Very well observed with lovely attention paid to the rendering of the facial features and the knuckles of his hand. Signed bottom right and housed in a smart white frame. Further information to verso including Apollo Gallery framer's sticker and papers. Byrne has a strong auction history with works fetching into the high hundreds.
MM: 50 x 75 cm in frame.
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 channelling it into painterly abstractions.
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