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www.adams.ieImportant Irish Art 2
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December 2015
31 GEORGE CAMPBELL RHA (1917-1979)Belfast Rioters
Oil on board, 60 x 50cm (23½ x 19¾’’)
Exhibited: ‘George Campbell and the Belfast Boys’, Adam’s, Summer 2015, Catalogue No. 132.
Provenance: The Estate of George and Madge Campbell
After ‘Bloody Sunday’ and the Abercorn bombing in 1972, George Campbell embarked on a series of paintings, ‘
The Belfast Series
’
representing Belfast during the conflict. Friend and journalist, Martin Dillon offered to drive Campbell around Belfast showing him
the areas worst affected by the Troubles and believed Campbell ‘captured iconic images of the Troubles’ in 1973. This painting,
‘
Belfast Rioters
’ is part of this series of paintings that were exhibited at the Tom Caldwell Gallery in June 1973. The artist chose not to
give titles to these works and they were included in the award winning RTE film “Things within things” produced the same year by
Jim Jones.
Karen Reihill
€ 2,000 - 4,000