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Tom Carr HRHA HRUA ARWS
(1909-1999)
Still Life with Oriental Vase
Mixed media, 28 x 20cm (11 x 7.9”)
Signed
Born into a wealthy Belfast family, Tom Carr was
educated at Oundle and Slade School of Fine Art in
London. From 1927 to 1929 his teachers included
Henry Tonks and Philip Wilson Steer. Among his
fellow students were two to-be-famous Ulster art-
ists, the sculptor F.E. McWilliam and John Luke,
later a teacher at Belfast College of Art. After spend-
ing time in Italy, he returned to London where he
showed in the company of other Slade artists includ-
ing Graham Bell,William Coldstream and Rodrigo
Moynihan. He subsequently became associated with
the Euston Road School of painting. After returning
to Northern Ireland in 1939, Carr’s work was famil-
iar at the Royal Academy, and at bodies of which he
was a member: the Royal Ulster Academy, the New
English Art Club, the Royal Watercolour Society
and, as an honorary member, the Royal Hibernian
Academy. In 1991 he gained an honorary doctor-
ate from Queen’s University, was appointed MBE in
1974, and OBE in 1993 for services to art in Ulster.
€800 - 1,200
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Barrie Cooke HRHA (1930-2014)
Nemesia
Oil on canvas, 40 x 30cm (15.75 x 11.8”)
Signed and dated 1964
Provenance: with Ritchie Hendriks Gallery,
Dublin; Collection of P.J. Brennan
€2,000 - 3,000