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Basil Blackshaw HRHA RUA (b.1932)
Cockerel
Pencil, 14.5 x 10cm (5.7 x 3.9”)
Inscribed “For Seán/99/from Basil”
Provenance: with Charles Gilmore, Holywood,
Co. Down
Born in Glengormley, County Antrim, North-
ern Ireland Blackshaw attended Methodist
College, Belfast and studied at Belfast Col-
lege of Art (1948–1951). In 1951 Blackshaw
was awarded a scholarship by the Committee
for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts,
to study in Paris. Known for his loose gestural
application of paint and a very distinctive and
subtle use of colour, he favours sporting sub-
jects usually within an Irish, rural context. He is
also highly regarded as a portrait painter.
€600 - 1,000
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Jacqueline Corbiere (20th/21st
Century)
Abstract
Wool wall hanging, 173 x 117cm (68.1 x 46”)
Signed with initials verso
A French artist, who spent the 1970s in Dub-
lin, Jacqueline produces abstract paintings and
tapestries.
€1,000 - 2,000