Lot 245: Diarmuid Larkin (1918-1989)

Armageddon
signed 'D. LARKIN' (lower right)
oil on canvas
24 x 29 3/4 in. (61 x 75.6 cm.)
Painted in 1947.

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

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.

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