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Barrie Cooke HRHA (1931-2014)
Estimate:
€20,000 - €30,000
Passed
Live Auction
Irish & International Art
Size
72.75 by 145.50in. (184.8 by 369.6cm)
Description
Title: DYDIMO, 2007
Note: Barrie Cooke was born in Cheshire, studied Art History at Harvard University and moved to Ireland in 1954. Cooke painted water, both clean and polluted all his life and was provoked to make work with an ethical response to ecological trauma. DYDIMO, 2007 is from an exhibition 'Water' about the later stages of a severe algae growth that hit rivers. Cooke has exhibited widely throughout Europe, the US and Canada. Major retrospectives of his work were held at the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin in 1986, at the RHA in 1995 and at IMMA in 2008. His work is represented in public and private collections worldwide. Barrie Cooke was a long-standing board member of the Butler Gallery.
Note: Barrie Cooke was born in Cheshire, studied Art History at Harvard University and moved to Ireland in 1954. Cooke painted water, both clean and polluted all his life and was provoked to make work with an ethical response to ecological trauma. DYDIMO, 2007 is from an exhibition 'Water' about the later stages of a severe algae growth that hit rivers. Cooke has exhibited widely throughout Europe, the US and Canada. Major retrospectives of his work were held at the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin in 1986, at the RHA in 1995 and at IMMA in 2008. His work is represented in public and private collections worldwide. Barrie Cooke was a long-standing board member of the Butler Gallery.
Medium
oil on canvas
Signature
signed, titled and dated on reverse
Provenance
Donated by the estate of Barrie Cooke
Exhibited
Water, Kerlin Gallery, 2007
