Morgan O'Driscoll Irish & International Art Auction 12th November 2018

I rish & I nternational A rt M onday 12 th N ovember 2018 at 6.00 pm 63 52 George Campbell (1917-1979) Mountain Village, Tenerife signed lower left and titled on reverse oil on board 51 x 40cm (20 x 16in) Provenance: David Hendriks Gallery, Dublin, April 1972 (label verso); James Adam, Irish Art Sale, 27th March 2002, Lot 20; James Adam and Bonhams, Irish Art Sale, 4th December 2007, Lot 119; Private Collection Exhibited: George Campbell Exhibition - The Lavitt Gallery, Cork April 1972: Catalogue No.7; George Campbell & the Belfast Boys Summer Loan Exhibition 2015, James Adam Dublin: No.121 €5,000-€7,000 (£4,464-£6,250) George Campbell first visited Spain in 1951 and was so smitten that he spent about half of every year there from then on. Throughout the 1950s and ‘60s he developed and refined an elegant, rhythmic style of painting - of which this composition based on a village on the island of Tenerife is a particularly fine example - that centres on a Cubist approach to spatial arrangement and is informed by an innate rhythmic sense (he was also an ardent and gifted musician).