€300 - €600
An original pen on paper drawing by the esteemed Irish artist George Campbell (b.1917-d.1979). Shows two figures bent over in loose and expressive strokes. This work is a preparatory study for his larger watercolour and crayon on paper painting titled "Drilling Potatoes" which sold at Whyte's for €3,200.
MM: 39 x 34 cm in frame
George Campbell was one of Ireland's leading landscape and still life painter. Born in Arklow Co. Wicklow, the son of the highly respected artist Gretta Bowen, he first began to paint in the early 1940s in response to the bombing of Belfast. An early friend of fellow artist Gerard Dillon, the two painted in Connemara during this time. In 1951 Campbell first visited Spain, the country having such a profound effect on the artist that he returned there on painting trips nearly every successive year. 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, beginning a long-standing and fruitful relationship with the art dealer himself. 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.
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