David Crone R.H.A., R.U.A. (born 1937) Stems 71.2 x 83.8 cm. (28 x 33 in.)

David Crone R.H.A., R.U.A. (born 1937) Stems signed, inscribed with title and dated 'STEMS '10 David Crone' (on the canvas overlap); further signed and dated again 'David Crone '10' (verso) oil on canvas 71.2 x 83.8 cm. (28 x 33 in.) Footnotes: Provenance Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, where acquired by the present owner. Private Collection, Ireland. David Crone is one of Ireland's leading contemporary painters. Born in Belfast in 1937, he studied sculpture at the Belfast College of Art in the 1950s before turning to painting in the 1960s. One of his best-known sculptures is Horse & Rider in the collection of Queen's University, Belfast. Throughout a long and successful career as a painter, he has exhibited extensively in Ireland, England, France and the United States. His work is now represented in most of the major public art collections in Ireland, including those of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the Ulster Museum, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the Arts Council of Ireland. He was elected as a member of the Royal Hibernian Academy in 2005 and in 2016 a major retrospective exhibition of his work was held by the Royal Hibernian Academy and the F.E. McWilliam Gallery in Banbridge. His paintings, with their expressive energy and abstracted forms capture the movement and vitality of urban settings, often inspired by his day-to-day life in Belfast, where he lectured at the Belfast College of Art. On moving from Belfast to a more rural setting in the 1990s the focus of his paintings shifted to the landscape and the immediate environs of his substantial garden. Art critic, Aidan Dunne, writing on David Crone in the Irish Times in 2019 remarked that 'He is generally and rightly regarded as one of the finest Irish painters of his time.' For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing