Irish & International Art 10th April 2017 : Click Lot Title for More info & Pictures.

RISH

& I

NTERNATIONAL

UCTION

ONDAY

PRIL

2017

6.00

113

152 Carey Clarke PPRHA (b.1936) STILL LIFE - FRUIT & FLOWERS

signed lower right

oil on canvas

71 x 92cm (28 x 36in)

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Private Collection

€4,000-6,000 (£3,478-5,217)

Carey Clarke was born in Donegal in 1936 and was educated at St. Andrew’s College, Dublin. He attended the

National College of Art (NCA) from 1954 to 1959 and took up a teaching post in the College in 1963. While at

NCA, he was awarded the Royal Dublin Society’s prize for portraiture and the Taylor Art Scholarship. He stud-

ied painting at the Salzburg Academy in the summer of 1969 and in 1976 took a year’s sabbatical to research

tempera painting in Florence. In 1985, he received the inaugural Keating/McLoughlin Bursary for Art and a

silver medal at the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA) annual exhibition.

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worth Gallery in 1966. He participated in numerous group shows including the RHA and the Oireachtas exhibi-

tions. Clarke was elected a member of the RHA in 1980 and served as Academy President from 1992-1995. He

is also a member of the Cork Arts Society and the Watercolour Society of Ireland.