Irish & International Art 25th April 2016 : Click Lot Title for More info & Pictures.

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signed lower right, signed & titled on reverse

oil on canvas

56 x 66.25cm (22 x 26in)

Provenance:

James Adam’s, Dublin, 1st June 2011 Lot 48

Private Collection

€6,000-8,000 (£4,687-6,250)

William Crozier was an Irish-Scots still-life and landscape artist based in Hampshire, England and West Cork. Throughout the 1960s

and 1970s Crozier exhibited his works in London, Glasgow, Dublin and all over Europe. From the 1980s, Crozier’s painting blos-

somed with a new freedom and confidence, the result of the stimulus provided by his studio in West Cork. His abstract landscapes

and still life painting used sumptuous colour to convey an emotional intensity. To the end of his life, he was endlessly concerned

with the challenge of creating a new language in figurative painting.

William Crozier represented the UK and Ireland overseas, and was awarded the Premio Lissone in Milan in 1958 and the Oireachtas

Gold medal for Painting in Dublin in 1994. In 1991 the Crawford Art Gallery Cork and the Royal Hibernian Academy curated a

retrospective of his work. He was elected toAosdana in 1992 and was elected an honorary member of the Royal HibernianAcademy.