WHYTE'S SUMMER ONLINE ART AUCTION TIMED 10 JULY 2023

263 SUMMER ONLINE ART AUCTION TIMED AUCTION - Ends Monday 10 July 2023 from 6PM 259 Yann Renard Goulet RHA (1914-1999) HOUSE IN A RURAL LANDSCAPE, 1946 oil on board signed and dated lower left 20 by 24in. (50.8 by 61cm) Frame Size: 27 by 31in. (68.6 by 78.7cm) Yann Goulet was born in St. Nazaire in Brittany and began his artistic studies in France at the École Nationale Supérior des Beaux Arts. Here he studied both architecture and fine art, learning the art of sculpture under one of Rodin’s assistants, Despiau. However, his passion for the Breton separatist cause brought about his leaving France in 1947 and settling with his family in Ireland. He established himself in Bray working primarily as a sculptor and won a competition to design the Custom House Memorial in Dublin. Ten years later, he began exhibiting at the RHA, eventually becoming the RHA Professor of Sculpture. He was also made a member of Aosdána in 1982. In Goulet’s obituary which appeared in The Irish Times on 25 August 1999, Aidan Dunne described him as an expressive innovator of the arts in Ireland. €600-€800 (£510-£680 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot259