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Super Star Lot: Tom Carr HRHA HRUA ARWS (1909-1999) An excellent original Tom Carr HRHA HRUA ARWS (1909-1999) watercolour, gouache and pencil on paper painting. Features a coastal landscape with figures. Rendered in a pastel colour palette with greens, browns and blues with confident flat brushstrokes. Great achievement of colours with red and yellow highlights. Signed lower right in pencil. Housed in a gilt frame with matting behind glass.
Tom Carr is a well known artist with works fetching into the thousands at Whyte's and Adam's. We have a super video on social media for this Lot look at our Facebook, Instagram and tic tok pages under South Dublin Auction for a more detailed view of this lot. MM: 51 x 41 cm including frame.
Tom Carr was born in Belfast and studied at the Slade School of Art in London in 1929, under Henry Tonks and Wilson Steer. After some time spent in Italy, he returned to London where he exhibited in various galleries over several years, and in 1933 took part in a group exhibition where the artists declared themselves to be ‘Objective Abstractionists’. Afterwards he felt that abstraction didn’t hold his interest, and he returned to figure painting, of children playing, beach scenes or lands capes of County Down. In 1939 he returned to Northern Ireland and worked as an official war artist. He taught art at the Belfast College of Art and also had regular shows at the Tom Caldwell Gallery in Belfast. In the 1980s two major retrospectives of Carr’s work were held, one at the Ulster Museum (1983) and one at the RHA (1989). He was honoured with an MBE in 1974 for services to art in Ulster and became OBE in 1993. He was also a member of the Royal Society of Watercolour Painters, the Watercolour Society of Ireland and of the Royal Ulster Academy of Arts. Tom Carr featured in 'Ulster Artists Exhibition' (2010).
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