A beautiful painting of a rural Donegal scene has sold at auction for €6,000.
‘The Road to Dooghety’ (Doochary) by the famous artist, James Humbert Craig, was bought last month by a private buyer.
It went under the hammer at Whyte’s Irish and International Art auction in Dublin, with an initial estimate of between €6,000 and €8,000.
The 20 by 24in. (50.8 by 61cm) framed oil on canvas painting (below) was signed by the artist, who passed away in 1944.
‘The Road to Dooghety’ (Doochary) by James Humbert Craig. Pic: Whyte’s Auction House.
Craig was a landscape painter born in Belfast in 1877. He enrolled at the Belfast School of Art but failed to finish even one term, therefore, he was largely a self-taught artist.
His passion for the outdoors and landscape meant that the Glens of Antrim, Donegal and Connemara were his most popular areas for painting.
At one stage he did emigrate to the US but only stayed for a short time before returning to County Down.
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