Charles Lamb, RHA RUA (1893-1964) – Carraroe, Connemara. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD
FROM the 1933 Chicago World Fair to Clifden, Connemara, Co. Galway 2014 might seem a long journey but there is a sense in which an artwork by the Irish artist Charles Lamb (1893-1964) has come home. Carraroe, Connemara by Lamb, which was exhibited on the Ireland stand at the Chicago World Fair, comes up on the first day of Dolan’s two day sale at Clifden on Monday, August 4. He was one of a group of artists who found inspiration in the west of Ireland in teh 1920’s and ’30’s. He had a house built of local stone in Carraroe, Co. Galway in 1935, where he settled and started a summer school. In the 1930’s he exhibited in Dublin, London, Brussels, Los Angeles and Chicago in 1933. His work was included in the Contemporary Irish Painting exhibition in North America in 1950 and he exhibited at the Royal Academy in London in 1938. Carraroe, Connemara, which has a Bell Gallery, Belfast label on the back, is estimated at 7,500-8,500.