Brian Bourke
Bourke was born in Dublin in 1936. He attended the National College of Art & Design in Dublin and later moved to London to further his studies. Bourke has worked around the world including in Bavaria, Switzerland and France.
In 1988 a retrospective exhibition of his work, '25 Years', was part of the Galway Arts Festival and this was later mounted at the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, Dublin.
Bourke has represented Ireland abroad on many occasions including the Paris Biennale in 1965 and the Lugano exhibition in London in 1980. A year later he took part in the second Biennale of European Art at Birmingham, Alabama, and in 1986 was included in an exhibition of Irish artists at Beverly Hills, California. His work has been critically acclaimed and is the subject of numerous monographs. An RTE television programme was produced on Brian's work in 1988. He is a member of Aosdαna and lives and works in the west of Ireland.
In 1988 a retrospective exhibition of his work, '25 Years', was part of the Galway Arts Festival and this was later mounted at the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, Dublin.
Bourke has represented Ireland abroad on many occasions including the Paris Biennale in 1965 and the Lugano exhibition in London in 1980. A year later he took part in the second Biennale of European Art at Birmingham, Alabama, and in 1986 was included in an exhibition of Irish artists at Beverly Hills, California. His work has been critically acclaimed and is the subject of numerous monographs. An RTE television programme was produced on Brian's work in 1988. He is a member of Aosdαna and lives and works in the west of Ireland.
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'WOMAN WITH HAT, 1983'
- Price Realised: 130
- Sale: 13 December 2023
- etching; (no. 2 from an edition of 5)
- 11½ x 8Όin. (29.21 x 20.96cm)
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'WOMAN AND CHILD'
- Price Realised: 100
- Sale: 06 December 2014
- lithograph; (no. 52 from edition of 85)
- 12 x 11in. (30.48 x 27.94cm)
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'DON QUIXOTE AND THE MARITOMES AT THE INN'
- Price Realised: 80
- Sale: 10 December 2016
- lithograph
- 13 x 8in. (33.02 x 20.32cm)