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I RISH & INTERNATIONAL ART AUCTION
M ONDAY 10TH APRIL 2017 AT 6.00PM
117
signed lower left & titled on reverse
oil on board
71 x 71cm (28 x 28in)
3URYHQDQFH Private Collection
€3,000-5,000 (£2,608-4,347)
Skelton worked initially in advertising as Art Director and illustrator of books, most of them educational. From 1975
onwards he worked full-time as a painter. He had 25 one man shows in Dublin; two in Belfast, one in Los Angeles and
one in the Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut. Up to the late 1980s, John was a frequent exhibitor in the annual Royal
Hibernian Academy shows in Dublin. In recent years, however, his work was in such demand that he contributed to these
less often. During the 1970s and earlier 1980s he earned a reputation as a gifted teacher and lecturer in the National College
of Art and Design in Dublin.