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46 Charles Brady HRHA (1926-1997) PAPERBACKS (1994)signed lower right
oil on linen
49 x 29cm (19 x 11in)
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Grants Fine Art Gallery, Co Down (label verso);
Private Collection
€2,000-3,000 (£1,739-2,608)
Charles Brady was born in New York in 1926 but spent most of his life in Ireland. In 1948 he entered the Art Students League of
New York and took a yearlong course. After art school he continued to paint, beginning to exhibit in the early 1950s. He had his
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began painting the Irish countryside. He returned to New York in 1958 but in 1959 he moved back to Ireland and settled there for
good. Poverty forced him to paint on small pieces of cardboard and small pictures became typical; he began to value the intimacy,
and affordability, of small paintings. In the 1960s he began painting still lives of everyday objects such as envelopes and tickets
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