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Sean O'Sullivan

Sean O'Sullivan (1906 - 1964) was active/lived in Ireland, England.  Sean OSullivan is known for Portrait painting, teaching, book design, printmaking.

Sean O'Sullivan RHA (1906-1964)

The Irish portrait painter and printmaker Sean O'Sullivan was born in Dublin in 1906. He studied drawing at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art where he won a scholarship and studied lithography* at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London.  After this, he studied fine art painting and figure painting in Paris at the Acadamie Colarossi* and La Grande Chaumiere*.  In Paris, he met many people who influenced him.  One of his Parisian neighbours was the sculptor Antoine Bourdelle (1861-1929).  In addition, he met and made friends with Irishmen Samuel Beckett, James Joyce and Thomas MacGreevy, as well as the French painter Goeorges Rouault (1871-1958).

Returning to London in the mid 1920s, O'Sullivan found work in book design and printmaking*.  Moving back to Dublin, he focused on portrait art, completing a number of paintings in oils as well as crayon and pencil.

He began exhibiting at the Royal Hiberni   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2502 characters.]  Artist bio

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