€500 - €1,000
Star Lot: A fantastic original photograph titled "Cupla Focal, Connemara" by renowned award winning photographer Bill Doyle (1925-2010) showing a traditional Irish grocers "O'Flaherty's" with the local characters having a pint and a chat. Hand signed by the photographer bottom right in ink. Doyle, known as Ireland's Cartier-Bresson, produced some of the finest photographs in Ireland, finding poetic moments in everyday gestures of life, depicting both ordinary and well-known people with the same gentle, respectful approach. His work is highly sought after, with similar works selling for up to €5,800 in Whytes. This is not a digital print, but a fully original 1970s photograph hand signed in ink by the artist.
Provenance: A collector of 1970s-80s prints, posters and photography of music and Irish interest.
Doyle's passion for photography began at an early age but it was not until he won the Daily Telegraph Magazine Photographer of the Year Award in London, in 1967 for his Aran Islands series that he took up freelance photography as a fulltime career. Throughout his career he favoured a Leica camera, although he also used a Rolliflex with its longer-format negatives; he worked mostly in black and white. The artist in conversation with RTÉ in 2007 can be found here: https://www.rte.ie/archives/2017/1205/925048-bill-doyle-photographer/ .
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