€370
Star Lot: An original George Campbell R.H.A. (b.1917 - d.1979) oil on board painting titled "Procecion de Semana Santa" dating to 1965. Features a busy abstracted all-over composition of figurative and architectural forms. Figures in the foreground are processing down a long street. Rendered in confident and decisive brushstrokes, in an intense and contrasting palette of rich blues, reds and greens. Both the palette and the subject matter seem to have been clearly influenced by the artist's time in Spain. Signed bottom left and housed in a smart wooden frame. Campbell was a well renowned Irish artist whose work remains highly desirable to this day, fetching upwards of €30,000 for his large scale works.
MM: 75 x 45 cm including frame
George Campbell was born in Arklow Co. Wicklow, the son of the highly respected artist Gretta Bowen. Campbell first began to paint in the early 1940's in response to the bombing of Belfast. An early friend of the well renowned artist Gerard Dillon, the pair painted in Connemara in the 1940s, before Campbell set off for Spain in 1951. He was so greatly affected by the country that he returned almost annually. He had his first exhibition at the Mol Gallery Belfast in 1944, in conjunction with his brother Arthur, who was also a painter. In 1946 he first showed with the Waddington Galleries, Dublin, thus beginning a long-standing and fruitful relationship with the art dealer Victor Waddington. He also exhibited with the Ritchie Hendriks Gallery, Dublin, the Tom Caldwell Gallery, Belfast and Dublin, and at the RHA, the IELA, the Oireachtas, and the WCSI. One-man exhibitions were also sponsored by the Northern Irish Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (CEMA) in 1949, 1952 and 1960, and by CEMA's successor, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland in 1966 and 1972. He is represented in most major public and private Irish collections.
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