Ciaran Clear
Ciarαn Clear is best known for dramatic moonlight scenes of his native Rush in North County Dublin and of Connemara. He was a founding member of the Fingal Artists Group in 1963, which included Maurice MacGonigal, Fergus O'Ryan, Bea Orpen, Patrick Leonard and Tom Nisbet. www.whytes.ie 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 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 London. He was a keen musician as well as being involved in his local Dramatic Society in Rush. www.whytes.ie
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'CONNEMARA LAKESIDE COTTAGES'
- Price Realised: 177
- Sale: 19 November 2001
- pen and chalk on card
- 11 by 17cm., 4.5 by 6.5in.
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'WAGONS WEST'
- Price Realised: 139
- Sale: 19 November 2001
- charcoal and pastel on tinted paper
- 27 by 37cm., 10.5 by 14.5in.
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'RUINED COTTAGE, DONEGAL'
- Price Realised: 114
- Sale: 19 November 2001
- mixed media on paper
- 15 by 22cm., 6 by 8.5in.