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George Russell1867 - 1935

Categories: Poet, Oil, Landscape

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Hammer Price: €40,000.00

Biography

George Russell grew up in Lurgan, Co. Amargh but moved to Dublin at the age of 11. He is known not only for his paintings but as a writer, poet, critic, theosophist and economist, and by his pseudonym ‘AE’ (a derivative of the word Aeon). He began night time painting classes at the Metropolitan School of Art just two years after moving to Dublin, and went on to receive academic training at the RHA. AE supported Hugh Lane’s campaign for the gallery of modern art and was active in the Iris

h Literary Revival. He exhibited abroad at the 1913 Armory Show in New York and at the Whitechapel in London, and created a large scale series of murals of 3 Upper Ely Place in Dublin which has been compared to the work of Goya. His paintings can be found in the collection of the Ulster Museum, National Gallery of Ireland, Hugh Lane, OPW, Trinity College Dublin and the Crawford Gallery. George Russell's work was included in 'Ulster Artists' exhibition (2010) and 'Ireland: Her People and Landscape' (2013).

George Russell

Estimate Price: €8,000.00 - €12,000.00

George Russell (1867-1935) Two Girls Playing by the Seashore Oil on canvas, 41 x 53.5cm (16 x 21'') Provenance: With Pyms Gallery, London; Sale, Whytes, 2nd March, 2009, Lot 76 George William Russell (1867-1935) was an Irish artist wh

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