FRANK PHELAN Past to Present II
Born in Dublin in 1932, Frank Phelan was raised in a house with little art. His education at the Christian Brothers School was harsh and in the end he was sent to Tipperary, to board at Rockwell College. Recognising his yearning to draw, Phelan studied at the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland School after which he found work as a draughtsman in a structural engineering firm.
Frank Phelan in his studio
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Olympia, 2010
Collage I, 2011
Charcoal and acrylic on canvas 183 × 152 cm
Collage 56 × 81 cm
£16,000
£1,600
In 1953, Phelan emigrated to Canada with his brother Brian working variously as a draughtsman, a truck driver and, over one Christmas, a puppeteer in the toy department of a large store in Toronto. His free time was spent sketching in art galleries before he enrolled on a summer course at the Doon School of Art in Kitchener, Ontario. After six years, Phelan returned briefly to Ireland before moving to London where he shared a basement flat with the Irish artist Frank Morris and found work as a stagehand, and later a set designer. A serendipitous encounter with the sculptor Bill Redgrave, in The Queen’s Elm (a London pub), led to Frank making his way down to Cornwall where Bill’s wife, Boots Redgrave, ran Trevaylor for Nancy Wynne-Jones. Her house, at Gulval near Penzance, had been turned into studios for artists and writers and Frank was invited to stay there, free of charge. He was befriended by the painter Tony O’Malley, along with a few of the St Ives artists: Bryan Wynter, Patrick Heron, Alan Lowndes and Conor Fallon (who later became a sculptor). For much of the 1960s Phelan lived between Cornwall and London during which time the Scottish entrepreneur and artist Richard Demarco gave him several successful shows in Edinburgh. Phelan’s paintings can be found in private collections in England, Ireland, France, the United States, as well as the State Collection of Ireland (OPW) and the Cork Institute of Technology & Arts.
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9 th – 26 th SEPTEMBER 2020 Meet the artist by appointment
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Concordia
Helios, 2018
Mixed media on board 41 × 36 cm
Oil on canvas 51 × 61 cm
£2,900
£4,500
Apollo’s Door
Elegy in Grey
Mixed media on board 36 × 41 cm
Oil on canvas 183 × 122 cm
£2,900
£12,000 5
Untitled, 2007 Oil on canvas 102 × 122 cm £9,500
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Botallack I, 2013 Oil on canvas 122 × 122 cm £10,000
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Figura
A Throw of the Dice (Mallarmé)
Oil on canvas 61 × 51 cm
Oil on board 36 × 41 cm
£4,500
£2,900
above
Aral Sea, 2013 Acrylic, ink and graphite on paper 50 × 37 cm £3,200
right
Naja Haje, 2003 Oil on canvas 76 × 61 cm £4,800 9
Red Pope I, 2004/19 Oil on canvas 102 × 127 cm £9,500
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Red Pope II, 2004/19 Oil on canvas 102 × 127 cm £9,500
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left
above
August, 2013/14
Polygon
Oil on canvas 120 × 145 cm
Oil on canvas 26 × 30 cm
£13,500
£1,500
above
Naxos II, 2013 Oil and graphite on board 36 × 41 cm £2,900 13
left
Denizen IV Acrylic on paper 55 × 79 cm £2,800
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left
above
Velo
Naxos I
Acrylic on paper 55 × 74 cm
Oil on canvas 60 × 40 cm
£2,800
£4,250
Tenor Sax
Iberian Rust
Charocoal and wash on paper 43 × 59 cm
Oil and charcoal on canvas 56 × 56 cm
£3,200
£4,500 15
Teal, 2017 Oil on canvas and collage 76 × 61 cm £5,500 16
above
above
Untitled II, 2016
Rire
Oil on canvas 41 × 36 cm
Oil on canvas 51 × 61 cm
£2,900
£4,500 17
Ataraxia Oil and charcoal on linen 61 × 76 cm £4,800 18
Delphic Oracle Oil on canvas 61 × 76 cm £4,800 19
Midday Oil on canvas 76 × 91 cm £5,600 20
Hamlet
Cantata, 2016/17
Oil on canvas 51 × 61 cm
Oil on canvas 76 × 66 cm
£4,500
£4,800 21
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Homage to Dinu Lipatti
Aral Sea II, 2013
Oil on canvas 51 × 66 cm
Acrylic, ink and graphite on paper 50 × 37 cm
£4,500
£3,200
Selected Solo Exhibitions: 1966 1967
Traverse Art Gallery, Edinburgh Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh (joint show with Justin Knowles) 2002 The Merriscourt Gallery, Chipping Norton Frank Phelan: Inside Out, Kings Road Gallery, London 2003 Walton Gallery, London 2004 ArtHouseGallery, Dublin Chelsea Arts Club, London 2005 Frank Phelan: Metáfora, Luz, Color, Museo Casa de los Tiros, Granada 2010 Wandesford Quay Gallery, CIT, Cork (joint show with Donal Moloney) 2014 Frank Phelan, Messum’s, London 2017 Frank Phelan: Past to Present I, Cricket Fine Art, London
Paper Kite, 2014 Oil on canvas 122 × 122 cm £11,500
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