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I RISH & INTERNATIONAL ART AUCTION
M ONDAY 10TH APRIL 2017 AT 6.00PM
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signed lower left & titled on reverse
oil on canvas
61 x 91.5cm (24 x 36in)
3URYHQDQFH Acquired directly from the artist;
Private Collection
€15,000-25,000 (£13,043-21,739)
Basil Blackshaw was born in Glengormley, Co. Antrim in 1932 and died in May 2016. He was educated in
Belfast and graduated from the Belfast College of Art in 1951. Blackshaw’s work remained dedicated to
very Irish and often rural themes, gaining him the title ‘poet of the rural’. The artist found inspiration in the
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of his father’s work as a horse trainer. In addition, he is also known for his nudes, portraits and landscapes.
Blackshaw is recognised for his traditional approach to painting, though combined with his signature loose
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considered to be abstract. Blackshaw has said that he aims to convey a ‘feeling’ through his art by using
the subject matter to evoke a sensation in the viewer. In 1977 Blackshaw was elected as an associate of the
Royal Ulster Academy of the Arts and in 1981 was elected an Academician. Blackshaw received the Glen
Dimplex Award for a Sustained Contribution to the Visual Arts in Ireland in 2001.