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106 77 Charles Harper RHA (b.1943) CLASS OF ‘62, 2008 acrylic on linen signed and dated lower right; signed, titled and dated on reverse 39.25 by 47.25in. (99.7 by 120cm) Frame size: 47.5 by 55in. (120.7 by 139.7cm) Exhibited: ‘One Hundred and Seventy-Eighth Annual Exhibition’, RHA, Dublin, 11 November to 13 December 2008, catalogue no. 222 Charles Harper was born on Valencia Island Co. Kerry in 1943. He studied art at Limerick School of Art and the National College of Art in Dublin as well as filmmaking in Bonn, Germany. He exhibits regularly in Ireland and abroad. Harper primarily uses a metaphoric approach to painting using such motifs as the boat, angels, balance, landscape, and the figure. He has represented Ireland many times abroad in such countries as India, Switzerland, Italy, Latvia, England, France, the US and Sweden. He has received eight National Awards for his painting, including First prize for Painting commemorating the 1916 Rising at the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin, The Carrols Open Award at the Irish Exhibition of Living Art in 1971, the Arts Councils Bonn an Uachtaráin de Hide at The Oireachtas Art Exhibition. His work is included in many important public and private collections including the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art to name a few. He was a lecturer at Limerick School of Art and Design (LIT), now retired. He is a founder member of Aosdána and an academician of the RHA since 2002. A major retospective of the artist’s work took place at the RHA Dublin in spring 2018. €5,000-€7,000 (£4,240-£5,930 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot77