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Irish & International Art Auction
Monday 5th December 2016 at 6.00pm
119
signed lower left and titled on reverse
oil on board
46 x 61cm (18 x 24in)
Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner
€1,200-1,800 (£1,043-1,565)
Desmond was born in Dublin in 1928 and was educated at the National College of Art where he studied drawing under Sean Keating
and Maurice MacGonigal. He was elected a full member of the Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts in Ireland in 1968 and served as
RHA Secretary between 1968 and 1982. Although specialising as an artist in oils and watercolour, he has worked in various media
including lithography and stained glass. He is well known for his impressionist style of painting, depicting Irish and Spanish country
scenes. During his 81 years he has exhibited in a great many one-man, and group exhibitions, and his work is represented in private
collections in the USA, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.