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17 Peter Curling (b.1955) The Last Furlongsigned lower left
watercolour
30.5 x 53.5cm (12 x 21in)
Provenance:
Private Collection
€2,500-3,500 (£2,173-3,043)
Peter Curling was born in Waterford in 1955. Curling showed a precocious early talent and had his first exhibition in the racing
centre of Lambourn at the tender age of fourteen. Sell out exhibitions in Dublin followed and it wasn’t long before he came to the
attention of Aylmer Tryon, founder of the Tryon Gallery and the renowned horse portraitist Susan Crawford. They advised him to
go to Florence where he spent two years studying in the studio of Signorina Simi.This classical training stood him in good stead as
he has always placed the utmost importance in sound draughtsmanship. It was to this end that he spent a short but invaluable time
with the sculptor John Skeaping R.A.. Skeaping impressed on the young artist the value of economy of line and the ultimate goal of
depicting movement, balance and a solidity of form without lumbering the work with too much detail.Curling also developed a close
link with the racing world and has enjoyed the whole spectrum of that fascinating sport from riding in races to ownership, training
point-to-pointers, and stewarding.