€900
Star Lot: An amazing original John Skelton (b.1925 - d.2009) watercolour and gouache on paper painting titled "Return to Aran - A Sudden Squall" dating to 2008. Features a lone fishing boat, struggling against the tumultuous waves. Particularly nice rendering of the rain filled sky. Signed bottom left and housed in a good quality silver toned wooden frame. Official artist sticker and Framewise stamp to verso. Skelton was a very popular artist with his work regularly fetching into tens of thousands, with a similar sized watercolour making €5200 at Whytes.
Provenance: purchased directly from the artist before he passed for €1800
MM: 77 x 62 cm including frame
Born in Armagh, John Skelton began painting professionally in London, being associated with the Euston Road School who emphasised realism, hoping to connect to a working class audience. He moved to Dublin in 1950, working as an art director and illustrator of books, before painting full time from 1975. Reoccurring themes for Skelton were west of Ireland fishing and equestrian scenes, having the narrative driven sensibility of an illustrator. He exhibited with the RHA and the Watercolour Society in Dublin. Skelton also worked as a lecturer with NCAD. His works have featured in a number of public collections.
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