Lot 639: Greville Irwin RBA

Greville Irwin RBA, British 1893-1947- ''Beached Boats at Ferry Concarneau''; oil on panel, 51x61cm, (may be subject to Droit de Suite) Note: Irwin was born in 1893 and studied art in Paris at the Acad�mie Julian and later in 1926 at the Academie des Beaux Arts in Brussels. during the interwar years he exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Royal Glasgow Institute, the New English Art Club and both the Royal Institutes but principally, 86 works, at the Royal Society of British Artists where he was an elected member. His exhibited works were testament to his travels, scenes of Mevagissey and Polperro in Cornwall, Concarneau in Brittany, Paris and London abounded. Irwin lived variously in Ewell in Surrey, London and Leamington Spa where he was seconded to the local camouflage unit in Warwickshire during the Second World War. Throughout his career he spent intervals at the artists' colony in St Ives where he took a studio finally in 1946.