Armageddon

Details

Diarmuid Larkin (1918-1989)
Armageddon
signed 'D. LARKIN' (lower right)
oil on canvas
24 x 29¾ in. (61 x 75.6 cm.)
Painted in 1947.

Exhibited

Dublin, Royal Dublin Institute of Art, 1947, catalogue not traced.

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

Born in Drumcondra, Ireland, in 1918, Diarmuid Larkin, son of building contractor, Sean Larkin, entered the Irish National College of Art in 1941. Larkin was instrumental in the establishment of the Dun Laoghaire School of Art and continued to exhibit at the Aisling Gallleries, New York, Robinson Gallery, Dublin and exhibited about fifty works in the R.H.A. up until his death.

More from The Poetry of Crisis; The Peter Nahum Collection of British Surrealist and Avant-Garde Art 1930-1951

View All