Ciaran Clear
Ciarαn Clear is best known for dramatic moonlight scenes of his native Rush in North County Dublin and of Connemara. Largely self-taught, he was inspired by various artists like Van Gogh. He was a founding member of the Fingal Artists Group in 1963, which included Maurice Mac-Gonigal, Fergus O'Ryan, Bea Orpen, Patrick Leonard and Tom Nisbet. Together they held exhibitions throughout Ireland in a bid to make art more accessible to wider audiences. His first solo exhibition took place at the Goodwin gallery in Limerick in 1962 and his last with Gerald Davis in Dublin in 1999. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Clear showed works at the Irish Exhibition of Living Art and at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin He was a keen musician as well as being involved in his local Dramatic Society in Rush. A retrospective of his works was held at the Daffodil Gallery in 2001 and 2003. (whytes.ie)
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'THE NIGHT TIDE'
- Price Realised: 7,500
- Sale: 07 March 2022
- oil on board
- 20 x 28in. (50.80 x 71.12cm)
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'COASTAL TRACK, NIGHT, REMOTE CONNEMARA'
- Price Realised: 7,500
- Sale: 27 September 2021
- oil on board
- 14 x 20in. (35.56 x 50.80cm)
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'MOONLIGHT'
- Price Realised: 7,000
- Sale: 03 March 2025
- oil on board
- 14 x 20in. (35.56 x 50.80cm)
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'WINTER NIGHT, CONNEMARA COAST'
- Price Realised: 6,800
- Sale: 27 May 2019
- oil on board
- 20 x 30in. (50.80 x 76.20cm)
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'SOUTH STRAND, RUSH, COUNTY DUBLIN'
- Price Realised: 6,600
- Sale: 29 November 2021
- oil on board
- 10 x 19Ύin. (25.40 x 50.17cm)
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'NIGHT - CONNEMARA COAST'
- Price Realised: 6,400
- Sale: 26 September 2022
- oil on board
- 14½ x 20in. (36.83 x 50.80cm)
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'THE ROAD HOME'
- Price Realised: 6,300
- Sale: 29 September 2025
- oil on board
- 14 x 20in. (35.56 x 50.80cm)
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'MOONLIGHT, ATLANTIC COAST'
- Price Realised: 6,200
- Sale: 29 September 2025
- oil on board
- 14 x 20in. (35.56 x 50.80cm)
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'WHITHER? WHENCE?'
- Price Realised: 5,200
- Sale: 02 December 2024
- oil on board
- 16 x 20in. (40.64 x 50.80cm)
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![IRELAND'S TEARDROP [THE FASTNET ROCK] by Ciaran Clear sold for 5,000 at Whyte's Auctions](/images/auction/864/64677.jpg "IRELAND'S TEARDROP [THE FASTNET ROCK] by Ciaran Clear sold for 5,000 at Whyte's Auctions")
'IRELAND'S TEARDROP [THE FASTNET ROCK]'
- Price Realised: 5,000
- Sale: 07 March 2022
- oil on board
- 17½ x 27½in. (44.45 x 69.85cm)
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'DONEGAL NOCTURNE'
- Price Realised: 4,600
- Sale: 07 March 2022
- oil on board
- 13Ύ x 20in. (34.93 x 50.80cm)
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'MOONLIGHT AT RUSH HARBOUR, OCTOBER'
- Price Realised: 4,600
- Sale: 07 March 2022
- oil on board
- 11½ x 15in. (29.21 x 38.10cm)
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'MOONLIGHT, ATLANTIC COAST'
- Price Realised: 4,200
- Sale: 26 September 2022
- oil on board
- 8 x 12in. (20.32 x 30.48cm)
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'INCOMING TIDE (HOWTH AND PORTRANE FROM RUSH SOUTH STRAND)'
- Price Realised: 4,000
- Sale: 01 December 2025
- oil on board
- 16 x 21in. (40.64 x 53.34cm)
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'NIGHT, AFTER RAIN, COUNTY DONEGAL'
- Price Realised: 4,000
- Sale: 02 October 2023
- oil on board
- 16 x 21½in. (40.64 x 54.61cm)
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'MOONRISE OVER LAMBAY ISLAND, NORTH STRAND, RUSH, COUNTY DUBLIN'
- Price Realised: 4,000
- Sale: 29 May 2023
- oil on board
- 14 x 20in. (35.56 x 50.80cm)
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'HEAVING TO FOR THE PILOT'
- Price Realised: 3,800
- Sale: 06 June 2022
- oil on board
- 14 x 19½in. (35.56 x 49.53cm)
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'SEASCAPE'
- Price Realised: 3,800
- Sale: 09 March 2020
- oil on board
- 8 x 12in. (20.32 x 30.48cm)
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'ON THE PATH FROM THE HILL'
- Price Realised: 3,600
- Sale: 27 May 2024
- oil on board
- 14 x 20in. (35.56 x 50.80cm)
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'HOOKER HAVEN'
- Price Realised: 3,400
- Sale: 01 December 2025
- oil on board
- 14 x 20in. (35.56 x 50.80cm)
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'RETURN OF THE FISHERMEN'
- Price Realised: 3,400
- Sale: 07 March 2022
- oil on board
- 17½ x 23in. (44.45 x 58.42cm)
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'NIGHT FISHING, TENERIFE'
- Price Realised: 3,400
- Sale: 25 May 2020
- oil on board
- 10 x 20in. (25.40 x 50.80cm)
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'ATLANTIC'
- Price Realised: 3,200
- Sale: 12 December 2022
- oil on board
- 21 x 28½in. (53.34 x 72.39cm)
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'MOONRISE, CONNEMARA'
- Price Realised: 3,000
- Sale: 29 September 2025
- oil on board
- 10½ x 14in. (26.67 x 35.56cm)
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'MOONRISE - IRISH SEA (ARKLOW SCHOONER)'
- Price Realised: 3,000
- Sale: 30 September 2024
- oil on board
- 8 x 12in. (20.32 x 30.48cm)
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'MOONLIT COASTAL SCENE WITH CURRACH'
- Price Realised: 2,700
- Sale: 29 May 2023
- oil on board
- 19 x 26in. (48.26 x 66.04cm)
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'GOING DOWN TO MEET THE BOAT'
- Price Realised: 2,600
- Sale: 29 September 2025
- oil on canvas
- 8Ό x 12Όin. (20.96 x 31.12cm)
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'MOONLIGHT NIGHT,CONNEMARA COAST'
- Price Realised: 2,600
- Sale: 14 March 2011
- oil on board
- 35 by 50cm., 13.7 5 by 19.5in.