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Important Irish Art | 28th September 2016

THE ESTATE OF PADDY AND MAUREEN WALSH

West of Ireland Landscape

Oil on board, 14 x 19cm (5½ x 7½’’)

Signed and dated (19)’77; signed again with personal inscription to ‘Maureen and Paddy’ verso

Provenance: From the collection of the late Paddy and Maureen Walsh, friend of the artist.

€ 600 - 1,000

Paddy and Maureen Walsh met Campbell in the 1940’s through the artist’s brother Arthur

Campbell. In 1946, following George Campbell’s first successful solo exhibition at the Vic-

tor Waddington Galleries in Dublin, Campbell began making regular trips to Dublin staying

with Nano Reid in Fitzwilliam Square and with Paddy Walsh in Marino, North Dublin. The

Walsh’s soon became part of Campbell’s inner circle visiting the couple in Spain, Round-

stone, Virginia and Dublin. In 1966 a booklet,

‘George Campbell RHA’

was published by

Three Candle Press, where Paddy Walsh was employed and one year later Paddy Walsh

set up Walsh Studios at his home in Marino and he collaborated with Campbell and Arthur

Armstrong in publishing a folio of eight prints which were widely popular.

George Campbell and Paddy Walsh 1949