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George Campbell RHA RUA (1917-1974)
Still Life Play of Shapes
Oil on board, 24.5 x 59.5cm (9¾ x 23¾”)
Signed
€1,000 - 1,500
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Basil Blackshaw HRHA RUA (b.1932)
County Down Farmyard (1952)
Oil on board, 76 x 112cm (30 x 44”)
Signed and dated (19)52
Basil Blackshaw was one of a notable group of artists to emerge post-war from the Belfast College of Art
where they had come under the direction of Romeo Toogood, a fine artist himself, who ran his classes in
a relaxed, unhassled atmosphere. Others in this group include T.P. Flanagan , Cherith Mc Kinstry (nee
Boyd) and Martin Mac Keown with whom he had his first exhibition in 1952, the year of this painting, in
the Donegall Place Gallery, Belfast. He was immersed in the rural life of County Down whose people and
their pastimes and animals were to influence him for the rest of his life.This farm might be near his home
at Boardmills or near Ardglass where he kept a caravan as a base for painting in the early 1950’s.
€7,000 - 10,000