Artist: John Skelton Snr (1923-2009) Title: Seaweed Harvest, Mannin Bay, Connemara Signature: signed lower left & titled on reverse Medium: oil on canvas Size: 51 x 61¼cm (20 x 24in) Provenance: Private Collection More info: Click to read more about this lot Many of John Skelton's figures can be read as elegiac, all caught in a kind of monumental loneliness. Even in his scenes of rural social life there is at times a somber note. It is caught in a child's sad face; a farmer's stooped back, a woman's wistful stare. The new Ireland of John Skelton's latter life, if anything, reinforced and re-energized these themes of sadness and loss. In the atmosphere of noise and youth, it became a point of honour for Skelton to mourn the passing of another world.
Artist: John Skelton Snr (1923-2009) Title: Seaweed Harvest, Mannin Bay, Connemara Signature: signed lower left & titled on reverse Medium: oil on canvas Size: 51 x 61¼cm (20 x 24in) Provenance: Private Collection More info: Click to read more about this lot Many of John Skelton's figures can be read as elegiac, all caught in a kind of monumental loneliness. Even in his scenes of rural social life there is at times a somber note. It is caught in a child's sad face; a farmer's stooped back, a woman's wistful stare. The new Ireland of John Skelton's latter life, if anything, reinforced and re-energized these themes of sadness and loss. In the atmosphere of noise and youth, it became a point of honour for Skelton to mourn the passing of another world.
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