Seán Keating
Born in Limerick in 1889, Keating’s mother decided to send him to the Technical School in Limerick to study drawing. He then won a scholarship in 1911 to attend the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art where he studied under William Orpen. In 1914 he won the Taylor scholarship and went to visit the Aran Islands with his friend Harry Clarke. It was a turning point in his career as the islands and their inhabitants were to become the subjects of many of his paintings. In 1915 he succeeded in showing three of his paintings at the RHA and was elected an associate in 1919 and a full member in 1923. In 1919 he also began to teach at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art. He was represented at the Royal Academy in 1924 and continued to exhibit there for the next thirty years. He represented Ireland at the New York World’s Fair in 1939 with a huge mural while winning first prize at the same fair in an IBM competition from seventy-nine countries. He resigned from the presidency of the RHA in 1962 and the following year a retrospective exhibition was held at the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, opened by President De Valera. As an artist and a teacher he always took a firm stand on the side of traditional painting and was outspoken in his rejection against the modern movement. Keating died in 1977 in Dublin. His work can be seen in institutions throughout Ireland, including the National Gallery of Ireland and the Ulster Museum.
For further reading see Dr. Eimear O’Connor Sean Keating: Art, Politics and Building the Irish Nation, Irish Academic Press, 2013.
For further reading see Dr. Eimear O’Connor Sean Keating: Art, Politics and Building the Irish Nation, Irish Academic Press, 2013.
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'SKETCHES [PICKETERS]'
- Price Realised: €1,300
- Sale: 26 September 2022
- charcoal
- 24½ x 18½in. (62.23 x 46.99cm)
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'SKETCHES [PICKETERS]'
- Price Realised: €1,300
- Sale: 06 June 2022
- charcoal
- 24½ x 18¼in. (62.23 x 46.36cm)
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'UNTITLED'
- Price Realised: €1,100
- Sale: 25 March 2024
- graphite and charcoal
- 26¾ x 18¾in. (67.95 x 47.63cm)
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'PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG WOMAN WEARING A STRING OF PEARLS'
- Price Realised: €1,100
- Sale: 07 March 2022
- pastel and charcoal on board
- 14½ x 13½in. (36.83 x 34.29cm)
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'WOMAN AND CHILD'
- Price Realised: €1,079
- Sale: 26 June 2000
- crayon and pencil
- 20 by 17cm., 8 by 6.5in.
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'PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN'
- Price Realised: €1,000
- Sale: 23 October 2023
- watercolour on tinted paper
- 12¾ x 9¾in. (32.39 x 24.77cm)
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'STUDIES OF A SEATED MAN'
- Price Realised: €1,000
- Sale: 17 February 2020
- pastel
- 21 x 28½in. (53.34 x 72.39cm)
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'LEFT TO US TO LOOK GOOD'
- Price Realised: €1,000
- Sale: 16 September 2019
- charcoal on paper
- 14¼ x 19¼in. (36.20 x 48.90cm)
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'WORKING STUDY FOR AN ARAN WOMAN WITH HEADSCARF, c. mid-1960s'
- Price Realised: €1,000
- Sale: 01 October 2012
- charcoal on transparent paper laid on paper
- 11.75 by 10.5in., 30 by 27cm.
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'PORTRAIT OF ERNEST WOOD SC'
- Price Realised: €950
- Sale: 04 March 2019
- charcoal
- 15 x 13¼in. (38.10 x 33.66cm)
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'WOMAN AND CHILD'
- Price Realised: €900
- Sale: 02 December 2019
- crayon and pencil
- 8 x 6½in. (20.32 x 16.51cm)
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'SKETCHES'
- Price Realised: €850
- Sale: 25 July 2022
- chalks
- 22¾ x 21¼in. (57.79 x 53.98cm)
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'STUDY OF MALE HEAD AND HANDS'
- Price Realised: €800
- Sale: 12 March 2012
- charcoal
- 35.56 by 29.21cm., 14 by 11.5in.
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'THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD by John Millington Synge'
- Price Realised: €750
- Sale: 28 March 2022
- deluxe edition; (no. 264 from an edition of 1,000)
- 12 x 10 x 1½in. (30.48 x 25.40 x 3.81cm)
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'IRISH FREE STATE POULTRY'
- Price Realised: €750
- Sale: 28 April 2008
- offset lithographis poster printed in colour
- 51 by 74cm., 20 by 29in.
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'IRISH FREE STATE CHICKEN, 1928'
- Price Realised: €700
- Sale: 25 July 2022
- poster
- 37 x 57in. (93.98 x 144.78cm)
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'THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD by John Millington Synge'
- Price Realised: €700
- Sale: 28 September 2015
- deluxe edition; (no. 44 from an edition of 1,000)
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'SOLDIER'
- Price Realised: €580
- Sale: 05 October 2020
- pastel
- 25 x 14½in. (63½ x 36.83cm)
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'MOTHER AND CHILD'
- Price Realised: €440
- Sale: 06 December 2008
- lithograph
- 30 by 25cm., 12 by 10in.
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'MILKING COWS'
- Price Realised: €400
- Sale: 25 July 2022
- poster
- 37 x 57in. (93.98 x 144.78cm)
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'DOUGLAS HYDE AS PRESIDENT OF IRELAND'
- Price Realised: €400
- Sale: 11 December 2011
- colour print
- 23 by 21cm., 9 by 8.25in.
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'STUDY OF A HEAD'
- Price Realised: €380
- Sale: 25 July 2022
- oil on canvas board; (unframed)
- 17½ x 13¾in. (44.45 x 34.93cm)
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'MOTHER AND CHILD'
- Price Realised: €320
- Sale: 17 October 2022
- photolithographic print
- 11¾ x 9¼in. (29.85 x 23½cm)
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'John M. Synge, The Playboy of the Western World, illustrated by Seán Keating - deluxe edition'
- Price Realised: €320
- Sale: 27 May 2006
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'John M. Synge, The Playboy of the Western World'
- Price Realised: €300
- Sale: 10 December 2005