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Camille Souter HRHA (b.1929)
Achill - Up the Brae
Oil, black enamel and spirit aluminium on paper, 48.2 x 72.4cm (19 x 28½”)
Signed, inscribed ‘Achill’ and dated 1960
Exhibited: Dublin, Municipal Gallery of Modern Art,
One Mans Meat: Sir Basil
Goulding Collection
, 1961, Cat. No. 56
Belfast, Ulster Museum,
Two Painters: Camille Souter & Barrie Cooke,
Jan/Feb
1965, Cat. No. 25
Dublin,The Carroll Building Grand Parade,
Two Deeply, One Hundred
Paintings by Barrie Cooke & Camille Souter,
Cat. No. 18
Wexford, YMCA as part of Festival,
Camille Souter Exhibition
Oct/Nov 1972, Cat. No. 16
Dublin, Douglas Hyde Gallery TCD,
Camille Souter Retrospective
, June/July
1980, Cat. No. 11
Dublin,The Taylor Galleries,
From the Collection of Sir Basil Goulding,
December 1982, Cat. No. 52
Provenance:The Basil Goulding Collection sale, these rooms, March 2005, Cat. No. 66; where
purchased by the current owner
Who better than Sir Basil Goulding, Camille Souter’s biggest patron, to give us an insight
into the artist ? Not alone did he choose all the work for the 1961 Exhibition “One Man’s
Meat”, which featured Souter on the cover and included this work, but he also wrote a
short personal piece on each artist which is worth reprinting here over 50 years later :-
“Camille Souter is a painter of the most rotund delicacy. It must be very rare for an artist
to possess or attain to - and in this case they seem to coincide - powers of unfailing
sensitivity as transmitted by techniques of unfailing discrimination - and all without much
popular notice .
One way of verifying a statement of this extremity is to see the artist’s whole stock
of paintings: if almost none are exceptions, and they only partial, one may speak. It is
intriguing, by the way, to notice how inadequate materials, brown paper, newspaper, spirt
- aluminium, printers ink, bicycle enamel, etc in these few pictures
- are powerless to inhibit surely evocative artistry “.
€5,000 - 8,000
