Lot 135: Alexey Krasnovsky (b.1945) MOORPARK APRICOTS signed lower left; inscribed and dated [2002] on reverse oil on canvas 28 by 41cm., 11 by 16in.

Alexey Krasnovsky (b.1945) MOORPARK APRICOTS signed lower left; inscribed and dated [2002] on reverse oil on canvas 28 by 41cm., 11 by 16in. Provenance: Peppercannister Gallery, Dublin Born in St. Petersburg, Krasnovsky studied for five years at the Tavrichesky College of Art under the Constructivist painter Alexander Pavlovitch Zaitsev. In the late 1970s he travelled to north America and from there to Mexico, Austria, France, Portugal and Ireland. Locally, he has had several exhibitions with Jorgenson Fine Art, whilst in London he has shown with the Albemarle Gallery. His work is in numerous collections including the Museum of Russian Art in New Jersey. E1800- 2200 Yann Renard Goulet RHA (1914-1999) Yann Goulet was born in St. Nazaire in Brittany and began his artistic studies in France at the cole Nationale Sup‚rior des Beaux Arts. Here he studied both architecture and fine art, learning the art of sculpture under one of Rodin's assistants, Despiau. His passion for the Breton separatist cause brought him into conflict with the French authorities and in 1947 he fled with his wife and young children to Ireland. He established himself in Bray teaching from home, painting and sculpting His first major commission was the Custom House Memorial in Dublin ( 1952-56). Ten years later, he began exhibiting at the RHA, eventually becoming the RHA Professor of Sculpture. In 1982 he was elected a member of Aosdana. In Goulet's obituary which appeared in The Irish Times on 25 August 1999, Aidan Dunne described him as an expressive innovator of the arts in Ireland.