▲ Colum Robert Gore-Booth (1913-1959) A landscape in France with farm buildings signed and dated 'Colum/1939' l.l., oil on canvas 73 x 92cm Painter Colum Robert Gore-Booth was born into an influential Anglo-Irish family in 1913. His grandfather was the famous Arctic explorer Sir Henry Gore-Booth, and his aunt Constance, known as Countess Marklewicz, studied art in Paris before joining the suffragettes and becoming the first woman MP to be elected to the House of Commons (although, as a member of Sinn Fein, she did not take her seat). The Gore-Booth family was based at Lissadel House in County Sligo in Ireland, where it is said that the poet W B Yeats often stayed, but Colum himself was born in Doncaster, and throughout his life spent a great deal of time at Sandhall Hall in East Yorkshire, the ancestral home of his mother. Colum went on to study at St John’s Wood School of Art and later moved to France during the 1930s. His work was heavily influenced by the Fauvist and Expressionist art movements, and his distinctive landscape paintings incorporate bold colours and broad brush strokes, creating stylised and intriguing panoramas, such as the work offered for sale. Colum exhibited his work in both Paris and London, but sadly passed away at the young age of forty-five in 1959. He has since been the subject of the biography 'The Life and Paintings of Colum Gore-Booth', by A J Blytheway, published in 2010. Condition Report: Framed: 86 x 104cm Spots and speckles of light surface dirt. There is some restoration visible to the right side which corresponds to three patch repairs to the reverse measuring 3.5 x 3.5, 4.5 x 3.5cm and 10 x 11cm. Not examined under UV light, for a full report please contact the department.