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Robert Emmet Costelloe (1943-1974)
Starting Bid: €600
Estimate:
€800 - €1,200
Ended
Timed Auction
Spring Online Art Auction
Size
48 by 48in. (121.9 by 121.9cm)
Description
Title: METAMORPHOSIS, 1967
Frame dimensions: 50.5 by 50.5in. (128.3 by 128.3cm)
Note: Robert Costelloe was a Dublin-born painter, sculptor and art teacher. After studying at the National College of Art he moved to London then Rome to study art, with a special interest in ceramics. Upon returning to Dublin one of his first commissions was for a poured concrete sculpture at Lansdowne House. In 1968 he won the Carrolls Prize for painting and in the same year began exhibiting with the Hendriks Gallery. Costelloe moved to North America in 1970, teaching at the North Carolina School of the Arts, and receiving numerous corporate commissions for his large-scale sculptures. He returned to Ireland in 1973 to teach at the Regional Technical College, Letterkenny, but was killed the following year in a road accident. His brother Paul is the distinguished fashion designer.
Frame dimensions: 50.5 by 50.5in. (128.3 by 128.3cm)
Note: Robert Costelloe was a Dublin-born painter, sculptor and art teacher. After studying at the National College of Art he moved to London then Rome to study art, with a special interest in ceramics. Upon returning to Dublin one of his first commissions was for a poured concrete sculpture at Lansdowne House. In 1968 he won the Carrolls Prize for painting and in the same year began exhibiting with the Hendriks Gallery. Costelloe moved to North America in 1970, teaching at the North Carolina School of the Arts, and receiving numerous corporate commissions for his large-scale sculptures. He returned to Ireland in 1973 to teach at the Regional Technical College, Letterkenny, but was killed the following year in a road accident. His brother Paul is the distinguished fashion designer.
Condition
Some chipping visible on close inspection centre right. Some scratching visible in places. Otherwise good condition.
Medium
oil on canvas
Signature
signed, titled, dated and with Ritchie Hendriks Gallery label on reverse
Provenance
Ritchie Hendriks Gallery, Dublin;Whence purchased by Alan Tate, 1968;Private collection
Exhibited
'Robert E. Costelloe', Hendriks Gallery, Dublin, June to July 1968, catalogue no. 21
