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Arthur Armstrong RHA
(1924-1996)
STILL LIFE WITH LAMP
oil on board
signed lower right; titled and
numbered [28] on reverse
24 by 30in. (60.96 by 76.20cm)
Arthur Armstrong (1924-1996) was a
painter from County Antrim, who often
worked in a Cubist style and produced
landscape and still life works.
Armstrong was born in Carrickfergus on 12
January 1924. He studied architecture at
Queen’s University Belfast, but after two
years he moved to study art at Belfast
College of Art.The influence of Cubism and
the School of Paris can be clearly seen in his
work, which took him to England, France
and Spain. He also travelled and painted in
the West of Ireland with fellow artists and
close friends Gerard Dillon and George
Campbell. In 1957 he was awarded a
travelling scholarship from the Council for
the Encouragement of Music and the Arts
(CEMA), and went to Spain. He eventually
settled in Dublin in 1962 and began
showing work at the Royal Hibernian
Academy.
In 1968 he was awarded the Douglas Hyde
Gold Medal at the Oireachtas Exhibition. He
became a member of the Royal Hibernian
Academy in 1972 and in 1973 he was
awarded the Art in Context prize from the
Arts Council of Northern Ireland. He
became a member of Aosdána in 1981, the
same year that a retrospective exhibition of
his work from 1950 to 1980 was held by the
Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
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Charles Brady HRHA
(1926-1997)
AN OLD DUBLIN DESK, 1966
oil on paper
signed and dated upper left
14 by 10in. (35.56 by 25.40cm)
Provenance:
Babcock Gallery, New York, 1980;
Private collection;
Heritage Auctions, 13 September 2014;
Private collection
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1,500-
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2,000 (£1,200-£1,600 approx)
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3,000 (£1,600-£2,400 approx)
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