Morgan O'Driscoll Irish & International Art Auction 30th April 2018 at 6pm

54 George Campbell ( - ) neAring Dun Aengus, inishMor (1971) gouache on board 37 x 54.5cm (14.57 x 21.46in) Provenance: David Hendriks Gallery, Dublin (label verso); Private Collection €1,200-1,800 (£1,043-1,565) Neville Johnson ( - ) ORDAINED ENIGMA (1992) signed lower right and dated ‘92 acrylic on board 38.5 x 34.5cm (15.16 x 13.58in) Provenance: Solomon Gallery, Dublin (label verso); Collection of Senator and Professor Trevor West of Trinity College and Charleston, Ballinacurra, Cork; By descent Neville Johnson was one of a number of progressive artists in Ireland championed by the art dealer Victor Waddington in his Dublin gallery from the late 1940s. While many of the others are still household names, it was Johnson’s fate to be recurrently forgotten and rediscovered. A thoughtful, cerebral person, his earlier work showed a fine grasp of Italian metaphysical surrealism, and he went on to explore a succession of related modern styles with great skill. He is also known for his street photographs of Dublin in the early 1950s. His Enigma paintings see him look back on his own earlier works in a spirit that recalls the Analytical phase of Cubism. €1,000-1,500 (£869-1,304)