John Keating
Born in Tipperary, John Keating studied at the Crawford School of Art, Cork, TCD and the Arts Students League of New York. Locally, he has held solo exhibitions with the Lincoln Gallery, Hendriks Gallery, Solomon Gallery and Ashford Gallery, Dublin and the Vangard Gallery, Cork. He has also exhibited in the Oireachtas, IELA, Aer Rianta Gateway to Art and RHA annual shows. Abroad, he has had work hung alongside such world renowned artists as Lucien Freud, George Baselitz and Antoni Tapies; these last two were among the 21 artists including Keating who were selected for the first Beijing International Biennale, held in 2003. In a monograph on the artist published in 2002, Ciaran Carty linked Keatings still life paintings with those of the 17th century Dutch and Flemish painters, whose allegorical works spoke of the transience of material objects and earthly delights. So too, according to Carty, Keatings works are a metaphor for the cyclical nature of life and death, a glimpsed moment of ripeness and perfection prior to decay.
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'HAND'
- Price Realised: 3,000
- Sale: 21 September 2004
- oil on canvas laid on board
- 119 by 119cm., 47 by 47in.
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'TIGER LILLIES WITH FRUIT AND JUGS, 2002'
- Price Realised: 1,900
- Sale: 29 November 2010
- oil on canvas with collage
- 59 by 121cm., 23.2 5 by 47.5in.
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'STUDY FROM THE GREEK, 1989'
- Price Realised: 1,500
- Sale: 17 May 2008
- oil on canvas
- 61 by 51cm., 24 by 20in.
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'HUMAN FRIEZE FRAGMENT, 1994'
- Price Realised: 550
- Sale: 29 November 2010
- watercolour with ink and oil pastel on paper
- 106 by 72cm., 41.7 5 by 28.5in.
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'VENETIAN HORSES, 2003'
- Price Realised: 400
- Sale: 14 March 2011
- watercolour
- 57 by 75cm., 22.5 by 29.5in.
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'PEAR AND FLOWER FRAGMENT, 1994'
- Price Realised: 400
- Sale: 14 March 2011
- ink with watercolour, pastel and pencil on paper
- 71 by 53cm., 28 by 20.7 5in.
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'HEAD IMPRINT, 2005'
- Price Realised: 290
- Sale: 12 December 2022
- charcoal and wash
- 16 x 13in. (40.64 x 33.02cm)