WHYTE'S IRISH & INTERNATIONAL ART MONDAY 26 SEPTEMBER 2022

87 IRISH & INTERNATIONAL ART - 26 SEPTEMBER 2022 AT 6PM 57 Barry Castle (1935-2006) ONE OF SOSNO’S WOMEN, 1986 oil on board signed with monogram and dated lower right; inscribed on Portal Gallery [London] label on reverse 39 by 24in. (99.1 by 61cm) Frame Dimensions: 42.75 by 27.5in. (108.6 by 69.9cm) Exhibited: Portal Gallery, London, September 1986 The daughter of author Maura Laverty, Barry Castle studied art at NCAD enrolling at the age of 15 and being taught by Seán Keating, Maurice MacGonagle and John Kelly, but left after two years. She did not continue to paint until she was taught a luminous technique by her self-taught husband Philip Castle (1929-2005). During her career Castle illustrated numerous books including her mother’s book, The Queen of Aran’s Daughter. Many of the originals for her illustrative work are now housed in the National Library of Ireland. Castle exhibited regularly from the 1970s in Dublin, Cork and London. She had her first major exhibition with London’s Portal Gallery in 1974, her husband first exhibited there in 1969. The gallery hosted solo and joint exhibitions of their work from the 1970s until the 1990s. Alexandre Joseph Sosnowsky (1937 – 3 December 2013), better known by the name Sacha Sosno, was an internationally renowned French sculptor and painter.[1] Working most of the time in Nice, in his last decades Sosno achieved international recognition for his monumental outdoor sculptures in Côte d’Azur, France. Along with: Yves Klein, Arman and Cesar he was part of the New Realist (Nouveau réalisme) movement . Sosno had a singular artistic approach: the concept of obliteration. His sculptures are masked by empty or full space, inviting the viewer to use his own imagination. €2,000-€3,000 (£1,720-£2,590 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot57