Basil Blackshaw HRHA RUA (1932-2016) Girl in Stripy Jumper Oil on canvas, 102 x 88cm (40 x 34½'') Provenance: The artist's family, by descent Basil Blackshaw was born in Glengormley in Co. Antrim in 1932. He attended Belfast College of Art and was awarded a scholarship to study in Paris by the Committee for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts. With his home and studio by Lough Neagh in Co Antrim there was no shortage of subject matter on his doorstep leading him to the exploration of the landscapes, farm buildings, dogs and horses that he shared his local environment with. While he was initially acclaimed for his mastery of traditional approaches to painting, he continued to develop as an artist, and was recognized for his very loose application of paint and a distinctive and subtle use of colour. His paintings of horse racing, cock fighting and boxing made him particularly popular, but Blackshaw was also a talented portrait painter, as the present work attests. A major retrospective was organized by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland in 1995 and this show travelled throughout Ireland and a number of galleries in the United States. The Ulster Museum followed this up with a major exhibition in 2002, while the Fenton Gallery in Cork exhibited fifteen new paintings in 2005. The following year Blackshaws work was exhibited in Paris at the Centre Culturel Irlandais. Basil Blackshaw died in May 2016. Basil Blackshaw HRHA RUA (1932-2016) Girl in Stripy Jumper Oil on canvas, 102 x 88cm (40 x 34½'') Provenance: The artist's family, by descent Basil Blackshaw was born in Glengormley in Co. Antrim in 1932. He attended Belfast College of Art and was awarded a scholarship to study in Paris by the Committee for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts. With his home and studio by Lough Neagh in Co Antrim there was no shortage of subject matter on his doorstep leading him to the exploration of the landscapes, farm buildings, dogs and horses that he shared his local environment with. While he was initially acclaimed for his mastery of traditional approaches to painting, he continued to develop as an artist, and was recognized for his very loose application of paint and a distinctive and subtle use of colour. His paintings of horse racing, cock fighting and boxing made him particularly popular, but Blackshaw was also a talented portrait painter, as the present work attests. A major retrospective was organized by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland in 1995 and this show travelled throughout Ireland and a number of galleries in the United States. The Ulster Museum followed this up with a major exhibition in 2002, while the Fenton Gallery in Cork exhibited fifteen new paintings in 2005. The following year Blackshaws work was exhibited in Paris at the Centre Culturel Irlandais. Basil Blackshaw died in May 2016.
Basil Blackshaw HRHA RUA (1932-2016) Girl in Stripy Jumper Oil on canvas, 102 x 88cm (40 x 34½'') Provenance: The artist's family, by descent Basil Blackshaw was born in Glengormley in Co. Antrim in 1932. He attended Belfast College of Art and was awarded a scholarship to study in Paris by the Committee for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts. With his home and studio by Lough Neagh in Co Antrim there was no shortage of subject matter on his doorstep leading him to the exploration of the landscapes, farm buildings, dogs and horses that he shared his local environment with. While he was initially acclaimed for his mastery of traditional approaches to painting, he continued to develop as an artist, and was recognized for his very loose application of paint and a distinctive and subtle use of colour. His paintings of horse racing, cock fighting and boxing made him particularly popular, but Blackshaw was also a talented portrait painter, as the present work attests. A major retrospective was organized by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland in 1995 and this show travelled throughout Ireland and a number of galleries in the United States. The Ulster Museum followed this up with a major exhibition in 2002, while the Fenton Gallery in Cork exhibited fifteen new paintings in 2005. The following year Blackshaws work was exhibited in Paris at the Centre Culturel Irlandais. Basil Blackshaw died in May 2016. Basil Blackshaw HRHA RUA (1932-2016) Girl in Stripy Jumper Oil on canvas, 102 x 88cm (40 x 34½'') Provenance: The artist's family, by descent Basil Blackshaw was born in Glengormley in Co. Antrim in 1932. He attended Belfast College of Art and was awarded a scholarship to study in Paris by the Committee for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts. With his home and studio by Lough Neagh in Co Antrim there was no shortage of subject matter on his doorstep leading him to the exploration of the landscapes, farm buildings, dogs and horses that he shared his local environment with. While he was initially acclaimed for his mastery of traditional approaches to painting, he continued to develop as an artist, and was recognized for his very loose application of paint and a distinctive and subtle use of colour. His paintings of horse racing, cock fighting and boxing made him particularly popular, but Blackshaw was also a talented portrait painter, as the present work attests. A major retrospective was organized by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland in 1995 and this show travelled throughout Ireland and a number of galleries in the United States. The Ulster Museum followed this up with a major exhibition in 2002, while the Fenton Gallery in Cork exhibited fifteen new paintings in 2005. The following year Blackshaws work was exhibited in Paris at the Centre Culturel Irlandais. Basil Blackshaw died in May 2016.
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