ADAM'S - Important Irish Art Auction - 31st May 2017 (Click Lot title for more images and to Place Bid)

Oil on board, 26 x 34.5cm (10¼ x 13½’’)

Signed

Provenance: The artist’s family.

Born in Portadown, Co. Armagh, Charles Lamb initially studied life drawing at night at the Belfast School of Art

before winning a scholarship to study full time at the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin in 1917.

In 1921 Lamb visited Carraroe in Connemara for the first time. Charles Lamb, like Henry, Keating and MacGonigal

had a deep attachment to the West of Ireland, especially the area around Carraroe where he settled in 1935 and

ran a painting school during summer months. From the mid-1930s he concentrated on depicting landscape,

working rapidly on a warm-toned surface whilst trying to capture the changing mood and light of Connemara. His

vision which is characteristically contemplative is characterised by broad brushwork and restrained impasto.

He also lived and worked in Brittany for a time during the 1920s, where the locals and way of life came to be the

focus of his subject matter, as the people of Connemara did while he worked there. He exhibited in London, New

York, Chicago, Los Angeles as well as regularly at the RUA and RHA where he became a member in 1930 and 1938

respectively. In 1947 a solo show was held at CEMA, Belfast, and a retrospective of his work was held in 1969 at

the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin. Significant works can be found in the National Gallery of Ireland, Hugh Lane Gallery

and Ulster Museum.

€ 2,000 - 3,000