WHYTE'S IRISH & INTERNATIONAL ART 6 JUNE 2022 AT 6PM

148 112 Peter Curling (b.1955) HORSE FAIR AT GORESBRIDGE, COUNTY KILKENNY oil on canvas signed lower left 40 by 60in. (101.6 by 152.4cm) Frame Dimensions: 42.75 by 62.5in. (108.6 by 158.8cm) Provenance: Christie’s, 14 May 2004, as ‘At the Races’, lot 203; Private collection; de Veres, 16 June 2015, lot 42; Private collection Born in Waterford in 1955, Peter Curling spent his early years in County Clare before moving to England. His interest in art was stimulated by his parents’ own interest - his father having worked in the Abbey Theatre, Dublin and his mother was involved with selling sporting paintings and prints. From an early age he showed promise as an artist. He had his first exhibition aged fourteen and two years later he had an exhibition in Dublin’s Combridges Gallery during Horse Show week in 1971. In England Curling won an art scholarship to Millfield College, London, after which he went to Italy. There he studied with the celebrated Signorina Nera Simi in Florence from 1972 to 1974 and later for a brief period under John Skeaping RA in France. Curling returned to Ireland in 1975 and has lived ever since in County Tipperary with his artist wife Louise Wood. Curling has exhibited regularly with the Tryon Gallery in London and also in the USA in Saratoga and Kentucky. In 2010 an exhibition of his work was held at the Sladmore Gallery in London. He has also shown work at the RHA, Dublin and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in London. In recent years he has diversified, painting landscapes and portraits as well as venturing into the world of literature with his published novel, Drawing the Line. Horse Fair at Goresbridge, County Kilkenny is an outstanding example from the artist’s oeuvre demonstrating not only his skill as an equine artist but also his intuition for recording the characters and atmosphere that surround them. €30,000-€40,000 (£25,640-£34,190 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot112