$55,000.00
Close Inspection Original Oil on Board 91cm x 61cm
When painting “Close Inspection” d’Arcy had to take photographs of his wife and two daughters playing the game to get the detail he needed. Having never played the game he was not familiar with it’s finer points! By the 1980’s d’Arcy was painting a variety of subjects including one recreated out of his mind from the 1930’s, where his brothers and sisters and other children from Darling Street, played marbles on the road. Instead of basing the scene in Darling street however he used a country town, rather than Ipswich. Paintings like this one always sold well and still do.
Most of d’Arcy’s paintings tell a story and the people in them have a role, like characters in a play. The challenge for d’Arcy was to combine people, buildings and landscape into a living thing. d’Arcy usually sketched a rough idea onto a small piece of cardboard before he put brush to canvas…the idea is always the hardest thing to come up with in the process of painting a picture. Nothing ever touched the canvas except for his brush, fingers and thumbs, which were always getting used.
d’Arcy Doyle was one of Australia’s most popular artists. It is estimated that 1 in 4 households in Australia has a Doyle print or reproduction from one of his originals. It is the reproduction of his work that has caused his originals to sell at higher and higher prices. This upwards spiral will continue to grow as Doyle originals become more and more sought after.
Original painting by d’Arcy Doyle
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