€260
Super Star Lot: A beautiful original Seán Ó Sullivan RHA (Dublin, b.1906 - d.1964) charcoal on paper drawing featuring a portrait of a young girl. A highly skilled portrait with wonderful achievement of proportion, light and shade. Signed bottom right and dating to 1950. Housed in a wooden frame behind glass. Ó Sullivan is a well loved listed Irish artist whose work fetches tens of thousands at reputable auctions such as Whyte's and Adam's.
MM: 56 x 71 cm including frame. cThere is a video of this lot on our social media accounts, search South Dublin Auction on Facebook, instagram and tic tok.
Seán O’Sullivan was born in 44 St Joseph’s Terrace, South Circular Road, and later raised in 126 St Stephen’s Green in Dublin, where his father, John, ran a business as a carpenter and joiner. He was educated with the Christian Brothers at Synge Street. O’Sullivan entered the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art in 1926 w here one of his teachers was Sean Keating. While in London, O’Sullivan met, and later married, a young Anglo-Dutch art student, Rene Mouw, and the pair spent their early married years studying in Paris. The couple returned to Dublin in the early 1930s and in 1936 O’Sullivan took a studio at Molesworth Street where he remained until he moved to 6 St Stephen’s Green in 1939. He was on friendly terms with many of Ireland’s best-known writers, actors, poets and painters including Sean Keating, Hilda Van Stockum, Maurice MacGonigal, Harry Kernoff, Patrick Kavanagh, Myles na gCopaleen, F.R. Higgins and John Ryan.
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