Camille Souter
Born Betty Pamela Holmes in Northampton, England, Souter grew up in Ireland. She originally trained as a nurse in London, but took up painting having been introduced to it as part of occupational therapy on the Isle of Wight. She also took up sculpture in Dublin under Yann Renard-Goulet as part of the same period of recovery from tuberculosis. Souter married the actor Gordon Souter, who gave her the nickname, "Camille". whytes.ie She took up painting in earnest after a visit to Italy in 1953. Souter exhibited widely in Ireland and Innternationally, with the Irish Exhibition of Living Art from 1953, the Independent Artists from 1960, and with the Oireachtas from 1970, Souter won many awards including the Tony O'Malley award in 1998, and the Irish Museum of Modern Art's Distinguished Career Award in 2000. In 2015, Trinity College Dublin awarded her an honorary doctorate. She was elected a member of Aosdαna in 1981, and elevated to a Saoi in 2008.
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'STRANGFORD QUARRY, 1994'
- Price Realised: 4,800
- Sale: 21 May 2012
- oil on paper
- 9.25 by 7.5in., 23.495 by 19.05cm.
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'CIRCUS II, 1956'
- Price Realised: 4,600
- Sale: 24 November 2008
- oil on paper laid on card
- 20 by 16cm., 8 by 6.25in.
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'ABSTRACT NO. II, 1961'
- Price Realised: 4,200
- Sale: 28 November 2016
- oil on canvas
- 6½ x 12in. (16.51 x 30.48cm)
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'ABSTRACT WITH RED AND WHITE MARKINGS'
- Price Realised: 4,200
- Sale: 19 February 2002
- oil and acrylic on paper
- 17 by 14cm., 6.5 by 5.5in.
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'INTERNAL FRACTURE, 1992'
- Price Realised: 3,800
- Sale: 26 November 2018
- oil on paper
- 8Ό x 6Ύin. (20.96 x 17.15cm)
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'UNTITLED, 1956'
- Price Realised: 3,200
- Sale: 07 December 2020
- oil on paper; (irregular)
- 7Ό x 9Όin. (18.42 x 23½cm)
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'UNTITLED, circa 1956'
- Price Realised: 2,900
- Sale: 18 May 2009
- oil on paper
- 22 by 17cm., 8.5 by 6.5in.
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'UNTITLED, 1956'
- Price Realised: 2,700
- Sale: 25 May 2015
- oil on paper
- 8 x 6Όin. (20.32 x 15.88cm)
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'CAMILLE SOUTER: THE MIRROR IN THE SEA by GARRETT CORMICAN'
- Price Realised: 380
- Sale: 18 October 2021
- special limited edition book; (no. 2 from an edition of 150)
- 13 x 10in. (33.02 x 25.40cm)
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'CAMILLE SOUTER: THE MIRROR IN THE SEA by GARRETT CORMICAN'
- Price Realised: 130
- Sale: 13 December 2021
- special limited edition book; (no. 88 from an edition of 150)
- 13 x 10in. (33.02 x 25.40cm)
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'CAMILLE SOUTER: THE MIRROR IN THE SEA by GARRETT CORMICAN'
- Price Realised: 100
- Sale: 11 December 2017
- special limited edition book; (no. 5 from an edition of 150)
- 13 x 10in. (33.02 x 25.40cm)