Artist: Barrie Cooke HRHA (1931-2014) Title: Big Nude II (2005) Signature: signed, titled and dated 2005 verso Medium: oil on canvas Size: 76.20 x 76.20cm (30 x 30in) Framed Size: 76.2 x 76.2cm (30 x 30in) Provenance: Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (label verso); Private Collection a#morebtn { color: #de1d01; } a#morebtn:hover { cursor: pointer;} Making a figure study in lushly sensual pinks and flesh tones, Cooke's subject, with closed eyes and a self-contained expression, reclines but is less than entirely relaxed, conveying something of the fraught immediacy of the experience of painting, and being painted, from life. Whatever his subject... Read more Barrie Cooke Lot 102 - 'Big Nude II (2005)' Estimate: €1,200 - €1,800 Making a figure study in lushly sensual pinks and flesh tones, Cooke's subject, with closed eyes and a self-contained expression, reclines but is less than entirely relaxed, conveying something of the fraught immediacy of the experience of painting, and being painted, from life. Whatever his subject, Cooke's work always conveys that electric urgency of being in the moment, responding directly to what is before him.
Artist: Barrie Cooke HRHA (1931-2014) Title: Big Nude II (2005) Signature: signed, titled and dated 2005 verso Medium: oil on canvas Size: 76.20 x 76.20cm (30 x 30in) Framed Size: 76.2 x 76.2cm (30 x 30in) Provenance: Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (label verso); Private Collection a#morebtn { color: #de1d01; } a#morebtn:hover { cursor: pointer;} Making a figure study in lushly sensual pinks and flesh tones, Cooke's subject, with closed eyes and a self-contained expression, reclines but is less than entirely relaxed, conveying something of the fraught immediacy of the experience of painting, and being painted, from life. Whatever his subject... Read more Barrie Cooke Lot 102 - 'Big Nude II (2005)' Estimate: €1,200 - €1,800 Making a figure study in lushly sensual pinks and flesh tones, Cooke's subject, with closed eyes and a self-contained expression, reclines but is less than entirely relaxed, conveying something of the fraught immediacy of the experience of painting, and being painted, from life. Whatever his subject, Cooke's work always conveys that electric urgency of being in the moment, responding directly to what is before him.
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