Camille Souter HRHA (b.1929) Achill - Up the Brae Oil, black enamel and spirit aluminium on paper, 48.2 x 72.4cm (19 x 28½'') Signed, inscribed 'Achill' and dated 1960 Exhibited: -Dublin,...

Camille Souter HRHA (b.1929) Achill - Up the Brae Oil, black enamel and spirit aluminium on paper, 48.2 x 72.4cm (19 x 28½'') Signed, inscribed 'Achill' and dated 1960 Exhibited: -Dublin, Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, One Mans Meat: Sir Basil Goulding Collection, 1961, Cat. No. 56 -Belfast, Ulster Museum, Two Painters: Camille Souter & Barrie Cooke, Jan/Feb 1965, Cat. No. 25 -Dublin, The Carroll Building Grand Parade, Two Deeply, One Hundred Paintings by Barrie Cooke & Camille Souter, Cat. No. 18 -Wexford, YMCA as part of Festival, Camille Souter Exhibition Oct/Nov 1972, Cat. No. 16 -Dublin, Douglas Hyde Gallery TCD, Camille Souter Retrospective, June/July 1980, Cat. No. 11 -Dublin, The Taylor Galleries, From the Collection of Sir Basil Goulding, December 1982, Cat. No. 52 Provenance: The Basil Goulding Collection sale, these rooms, March 2005, Cat. No. 66; where purchased by the current owner. Who better than Sir Basil Goulding, Camille Souter's biggest patron, to give us an insight into the artist? Not alone did he choose all the work for the 1961 Exhibition ''One Man's Meat'' , which featured Souter on the cover and included this work, but he also wrote a short personal piece on each artist which is worth reprinting here over 50 years later :- ''Camille Souter is a painter of the most rotund delicacy. It must be very rare for an artist to possess or attain to - and in this case they seem to coincide - powers of unfailing sensitivity as transmitted by techniques of unfailing discrimination - and all without much popular notice. One way of verifying a statement of this extremity is to see the artist's whole stock of paintings: if almost none are exceptions, and they only partial, one may speak. It is intriguing, by the way, to notice how inadequate materials, brown paper, newspaper, spirt -aluminium, printers ink , bicycle enamel , etc in these few pictures - are powerless to inhibit surely evocative artistry''.

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