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Royal Dublin Society (RDS) Ballsbridge Dublin 4, |
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6pm |
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Saturday & Sunday 17 & 18 September, 10am to 6pm; Monday 19 September, 10am to 9pm; Tuesday 20 September (day of sale) 10am to 2pm. No viewing after 2pm on 20 September. |
| On view in Belfast at The Eakin Gallery, 237 Lisburn Road, on Friday 2 September, 5pm to 8pm and Saturday 3 September 9.30am to 5.30pm |
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Tony O'Malley HRHA (1913-2003)
NANCLEDRA LANDSCAPE
Signature: signed with initials and dated [1 January 1974] lower left; inscribed and signed again on reverse
Medium: pen and ink on paper
Dimensions: 25 by 18cm., 10 by 7in.
Provenance: Purchased by the present owner in St. Ives, 1988
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 1
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€1,500-2,000
Price Realised:
€0 |
| Nancledra is a village in Cornwall. |
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Louis le Brocquy HRHA (b.1916)
STUDY TOWARDS AN IMAGE OF W. B. YEATS, 1975
Signature: signed and inscribed lower left
Medium: aquatint with drypoint (no. 59 from an edition of 100)
Dimensions: 50 by 44cm., 19.5 by 17.5in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
Literature: Dorothy Walker, Louis le Brocquy, Ward River Press, Dublin, 1981, page 56 and illustrated on page 113 |
Lot
No.: 2
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€1,500-2,000
Price Realised:
€3400 |
| Commissioned by the Swedish gallery owner Per-Olov Börjeson as part of a portfolio of portraits of 33 Nobel Prize-winners by 33 artists. Le Brocquy chose to depict W. B. Yeats, whom he had met as a young boy, and the project sparked a long series of studies that were shown in the Dawson Gallery, Dublin, and later abroad. |
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William Crozier HRHA (b.1930)
WINTER FLOOD
Signature: signed lower left; inscribed on reverse
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 24 by 33cm., 9.5 by 13in.
Provenance:
Exhibited: 'A Passion for Nature: Recent Paintings by William Crozier', Bruton Street Gallery, London, 11-29 April 1995 (illustrated page 8 of the catalogue)
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Lot
No.: 3
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€4,000-6,000
Price Realised:
€6200 |
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Colin Middleton MBE RHA (1910-1983)
COLERAINE
Signature: signed in monogram, inscribed and dated [1957] lower right
Medium: brush and ink on paper
Dimensions: 25 by 36cm., 10 by 14in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 4
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€1,500-2,000
Price Realised:
€1700 |
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Peter Collis RHA (b.1929)
STILL LIFE AND SUGARLOAF
Signature: signed lower left; exhibition label on reverse
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 24 by 36cm., 9.5 by 14in.
Provenance:
Exhibited: 'Peter Collis RHA: New Paintings', John Martin Gallery, London, 9-30 November 1999, catalogue no. 6 (illustrated page 11 of the catalogue)
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Lot
No.: 5
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€3,500-4,500
Price Realised:
€5200 |
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William Crozier HRHA (b.1930)
THE TELEPHONE EXCHANGE
Signature: signed and dated [1984] lower right; inscribed on reverse
Medium: gouache on paper
Dimensions: 38 by 53cm., 15 by 21in.
Provenance: The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh; Private collection, UK
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 6
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€3,000-4,000
Price Realised:
€0 |
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Martin Finnin (b.1968)
THE DREAMING HAYSTACKS
Signature: signed and dated [2005] lower left; inscribed, signed and dated again on reverse
Medium: oil on handmade paper
Dimensions: 57 by 75cm., 22.5 by 29.7in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 7
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€2,500-3,500
Price Realised:
€3200 |
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William Scott CBE RA (1913-1989)
STILL LIFE
Signature: signed, dated [1976] and numbered lower right
Medium: lithograph (no. 15 from an edition of 40)
Dimensions: 56 by 76cm., 22 by 30in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
Literature: Norbert Lynton, William Scott, Thames and Hudson, London, 2004, pages 352, 354 |
Lot
No.: 8
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€5,000-7,000
Price Realised:
€0 |
| The present work relates to a gouache, simply titled Still Life, of 1975, illustrated in Lynton op. cit. , page 352 |
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Patrick Scott HRHA (b.1921)
GOLD PAINTING 53, 1968
Signature: signed and inscribed on reverse; also with Dawson Gallery exhibition label on reverse
Medium: tempera on canvas
Dimensions: 61 by 61cm., 24 by 24in.
Provenance: Dawson Gallery, Dublin; Whence purchased by architect Michael Scott (1905-1989); Private collection
Exhibited: 'Patrick Scott', Dawson Gallery, Dublin, 5-22 November 1969, catalogue no. 6; 'Forty Shades of Green: The Republic of Ireland', Hallmark Gallery, New York, 7 March - 12 May 1973, toured to Kennedy's in Boston (lent by Michael Scott)
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Lot
No.: 9
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€5,000-7,000
Price Realised:
€5000 |
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Louis le Brocquy HRHA (b.1916)
RIVERRUN, PROCESSION WITH LILIES I, 1991
Signature: signed and numbered lower right; exhibition label on reverse
Medium: lithograph on handmade Japanese paper (no. 42 from an edition of 75)
Dimensions: 56 by 76cm., 22 by 30in.
Provenance:
Exhibited: 'Louis le Brocquy, Procession: six multicoloured lithographs', Taylor Galleries, Dublin, 14-30 May 1992 (illustrated in catalogue)
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Lot
No.: 10
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€3,000-4,000
Price Realised:
€4600 |
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Louis le Brocquy HRHA (b.1916)
STUDY FOR THE HUMAN CHILD
Signature: signed and dated [1948] lower right; inscribed and signed again on reverse; also original exhibition label on reverse
Medium: monotype - oil on card
Dimensions: 20 by 25cm., 8 by 10in.
Provenance: Leicester Galleries, London; Whence purchased by Mrs F. Hollebone; Private collection
Exhibited: Leicester Galleries, London, June 1948, catalogue no. 30
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Lot
No.: 11
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€5,000-7,000
Price Realised:
€13000 |
| The Human Child belongs to le Brocquy’s series of apocalyptic paintings from the late 1940s, which featured travelling people or ‘tinkers’ as symbols of the dispossessed who wandered Europe after the Second World War. The series included The Fearful World, In Fear of Cain and Man Creating Bird, all painted in 1948. The Human Child is perhaps the gentlest work from the series. Its title alludes to the human child of Yeat’s poem, The Stolen Child, whom faeries tempt away from worldly troubles: “Come away, O human child! / To the waters and the wild / With a faery, hand in hand, / For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand”. The oil painting for which this is a study was exhibited at the RHA in 1951 and at £135 was the artist’s highest priced exhibit at the time (present whereabouts unknown). With thanks to Pierre le Brocquy for his help in cataloguing this work. |
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John Kingerlee (b.1936)
LAKESIDE
Signature: signed in monogram and dated [2002] lower left; inscribed and signed again on reverse
Medium: oil on board
Dimensions: 25 by 30cm., 10 by 12in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 12
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€2,000-3,000
Price Realised:
€8500 |
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Gerard Dillon (1916-1971)
TWO CONNEMARA KIDS, circa 1940
Signature: signed lower left; inscribed on reverse; also with Dawson Gallery framing label on reverse
Medium: monotype - oil on board
Dimensions: 30 by 64cm., 12 by 25in.
Provenance: Dawson Gallery, Dublin; Private collection
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 13
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€5,000-7,000
Price Realised:
€0 |
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John Shinnors (b.1950)
BUS STOP
Signature: signed and dated [1985-6] lower right; original inscribed label on reverse
Medium: oil on canvas laid on board
Dimensions: 37 by 42cm., 14.5 by 16.5in.
Provenance:
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Lot
No.: 14
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€8,000-10,000
Price Realised:
€11500 |
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Colin Middleton MBE RHA (1910-1983)
LLANCA (FIGURE STUDY)
Signature: signed lower right; inscribed and dated [27 October 1978] lower left; studio sale stamp on reverse
Medium: signed lower right; inscribed and dated [27 October 1978] lower left; studio sale stamp on reverse
Dimensions: 20 by 20cm., 8 by 8in.
Provenance:
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Lot
No.: 15
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€1,000-1,500
Price Realised:
€1200 |
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Louis le Brocquy HRHA (b.1916)
CUCHULAINN CONFRONTING FERDIA
Signature: signed, inscribed and dated [1969] lower right
Medium: lithograph on Swiftbrook paper (no. 7 from an edition of 70)
Dimensions: 53 by 38cm., 21 by 15in.
Provenance:
Exhibited: 'Louis le Brocquy: The Táin Portfolios', Taylor Galleries, Dublin, 28 April - 13 May 1995, catalogue no. 1 (illustrated)
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Lot
No.: 16
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€1,500-2,000
Price Realised:
€4000 |
| Printed by Frank O'Reilly, Dublin, 1969, as part of The Táin portfolio, based on Thomas Kinsella's translation. |
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Patricia Jorgenson (b.1936)
CÚCHULAINN
Signature: signed in monogram lower left
Medium: wall hanging appliquéd in silks and leathers
Dimensions: 99 by 152cm., 39 by 60in.
Provenance: Lad Lane Gallery, Dublin; Whence purchased by the present owner
Exhibited: 'Patricia Jorgenson: Textile Wall Hangings', Lad Lane Gallery, Dublin, 24 September - 20 October 1979, catalogue no. 9
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Lot
No.: 17
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€2,000-3,000
Price Realised:
€2000 |
| A copy of the 1979 exhibition catalogue and original receipt is included with this lot, as is a copy of the Lad Lane Gallery's press release for the show. |
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Tony O'Malley HRHA (1913-2003)
ABSTRACT SERIES (BOOK OF KELLS)
Signature: signed in Irish and dated [1973] lower right; typed exhibition label on reverse
Medium: watercolour, crayon and gouache on paper
Dimensions: 30 by 41cm., 12 by 16in.
Provenance: Tom Caldwell Gallery, Belfast; Private collection
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 18
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€5,000-7,000
Price Realised:
€0 |
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Anne Yeats (1919-2001)
DUSTY CORNER
Signature: signed lower right; original exhibition label on reverse
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 51 by 69cm., 20 by 27in.
Provenance: Dawson Gallery, Dublin; Private collection
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 19
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€3,000-5,000
Price Realised:
€3400 |
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Basil Ivan Rákóczi (1908-1979)
THE RED HORSE, 1956
Signature: signed lower right, inscribed with title and artist's reference no. (2187), signed and dated on reverse (beneath backing board)
Medium: gouache on card
Dimensions: 43 by 62cm., 17 by 24.5in.
Provenance:
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Lot
No.: 20
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€5,000-7,000
Price Realised:
€5000 |
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Norah McGuiness (1901-1980)
ON A FULL TIDE
Signature: signed and dated [1938] lower right; Dawson Gallery label on reverse inscribed with title and price (£100)
Medium: watercolour and gouache over pencil
Dimensions: 36 by 50cm., 14 by 19.5in.
Provenance: Collection of the artist; Taylor Galleries, Dublin; Private collection
Exhibited: WCSI, Dublin, 1977, catalogue no. 38 (£100-00)
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Lot
No.: 21
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€6,000-8,000
Price Realised:
€6700 |
| View of the River Liffey, Dublin, painted in 1938 but not exhibited until nearly forty years later, in 1977. |
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George Campbell RHA (1917-1979)
DERELICT ROW-BOAT, KILKEEL
Signature: signed lower right; remains of inscribed label and Living Art label on reverse
Medium: oil on board
Dimensions: 41 by 51cm., 16 by 20in.
Provenance:
Exhibited: Irish Exhibition of Living Art, Dublin, 1949, catalogue no. 46 (£25-0-0)
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Lot
No.: 22
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€10,000-12,000
Price Realised:
€9000 |
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George Campbell RHA (1917-1979)
SPANISH MOUNTAIN VILLAGE AT NIGHT
Signature: signed lower left; exhibition label on reverse
Medium: crayon and ink on paper
Dimensions: 27 by 32cm., 10.5 by 12.5in.
Provenance: Frederick Gallery, Dublin; Private collection
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 23
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€1,500-2,000
Price Realised:
€1500 |
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Anne Yeats (1919-2001)
STILL LIFE WITH PURPLE CLOTH, 1968
Signature: signed twice lower right; exhibition label on reverse
Medium: oil on board
Dimensions: 36 by 56cm., 14 by 22in.
Provenance:
Exhibited: Irish Exhibition of Living Art, Dublin, 1969, catalogue no. 69;
‘Anne Yeats: Retrospective Exhibition’, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin, 18 January - 10 February, 1995, catalogue no. 42
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Lot
No.: 24
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€2,000-3,000
Price Realised:
€3200 |
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Stella Steyn (1907-1987)
SEATED WOMAN AND FERN
Signature: signed lower right; inscribed with title, date [June 1950] and artist's reference no. (EFS52) on reverse
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 93 by 61cm., 36.5 by 24in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 25
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€2,000-3,000
Price Realised:
€4200 |
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Stella Steyn (1907-1987)
TWO FIGURES ON A BLUE GROUND
Signature: signed and dated [1949] lower right; inscribed with title, date [April 1949] and artist's reference no. (EFS11) on reverse
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 85 by 91cm., 33.5 by 36in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 26
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€2,000-3,000
Price Realised:
€5000 |
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Gerard Dillon (1916-1971)
BEGINNING, 1968
Signature: signed lower left; inscribed on reverse
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 66 by 76cm., 26 by 30in.
Provenance: De Vere's, Dublin, November 1995; Peppercanister Gallery, Dublin; Whence purchased by the present owners
Exhibited: ‘Gerard Dillon’, Dawson Gallery, Dublin, 12 June - 2 July 1968, catalogue no. 17;
‘Summer Exhibition’, Peppercanister Gallery, Dublin, 11 June - 4 July 2003, catalogue no. 11 (illustrated on front of catalogue)
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Lot
No.: 27
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€40,000-60,000
Price Realised:
€0 |
| In 1962 Dillon began a series of paintings incorporating the figure of the masked pierrot, which he would work on until his death (for a fuller discussion of the series see James White, Gerard Dillon: An Illustrated Biography, Wolfhound Press, Dublin, 1994, pages 90-94). The series began with And the Time Passes (1962), which depicted two clowns hand-in-hand and was a direct response to the death of his brother, Joe. Over the next three years Dillon’s other two brothers died of the same heart defect that had taken Joe, and Dillon began meditating on his own mortality. The initial pierrot pictures thus took on an air of deep melancholia, culminating in The Brothers (1967), where the pierrot mourns three skeletons buried one on top of the other in the earth.
However, the bright colours of these pierrot works were cheerfully insistent and led Dillon along a more surrealist or fantastical vein. By 1967 he was referring to the series as “pierrots in poetic fantasies” (White, op. cit., page 92). After surviving a cardiac arrest in the late summer of 1967, he returned to the pierrot theme with great enthusiasm and by early 1968 was experimenting with cut-out shapes in the sky of these compositions. He described the process to his nephew in a letter: “It’s great fun trying to get the optical illusion of now one minute the shape is receding and now coming forward. It’s the difficulty that makes it worth while attempting – the result is decorative primarily, I suppose with an undercurrent for surrealism” (quoted in White, op. cit., page 93). Thus in Cut out, Drop out (1968, AIB collection), the pierrot contemplates a green and blue sky with ghostly clown-shaped clouds, whereas in Once Upon A Wavelength (1968), the clouds are shaped like women, swirling over the head of a female nude who looks towards a waving pierrot in the distance.
In Beginnings the clouds are more amorphously shaped, suggestive of archaeological finds: flints, shells and bone shards. The pierrot stands in an attitude of contemplation, aware perhaps of his imminent return to the earth, wherein lies the clues to the beginning of time. The work almost certainly relates to another painting, Red Sky Wonder, exhibited at the Living Art Exhibition of 1968 (whereabouts unknown). Certainly the pierrot in Beginnings expresses with his clasped hands and balletic poise a sense of wonder and inspiration, that is in itself a marvel in a mature artist in his final years. |
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Gerard Dillon (1916-1971)
BIRD AND BONES
Signature: signed lower right
Medium: crayon and graphite on board
Dimensions: 37 by 28cm., 14.5 by 11in.
Provenance:
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Lot
No.: 28
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€3,000-4,000
Price Realised:
€2800 |
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Gerard Dillon (1916-1971)
HEAD OF MOLLY, THE ARTIST'S SISTER
Signature: signed at base
Medium: terracotta bust with painted finish, on a marble plinth
Dimensions: 24 by 0cm., 9.5 by in.
Provenance:
Exhibited: Further information has come to light, which suggests this work may date to 1943. In a review of Dillon and O’Neill’s joint exhibition at the Contemporary Pictures Gallery, Dublin, art critic Thomas MacGreevy wrote: “there is no denying the touching and often humorous charm that characterises Gerard Dillon’s paintings and water-colours, and also a single experiment in sculpture included here” (Irish Times, 6 December 1943, p. 2).
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Lot
No.: 29
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€2,000-3,000
Price Realised:
€2000 |
| Nine years older than her brother, Molly Dillon worked as a young girl in a cloth mill in Belfast. In the 1930s she moved to London, where she and Gerard shared a flat in Alexander Road, St John’s Wood. There she worked as a dressmaker and eventually bought a house in Abbey Road, London, the basement of which she rented to her brother. The Abbey Road house was a regular haunt of many artists and writers, not to mention Molly’s menagerie of stray cats and dogs, until London Borough Council ordered it demolished in 1963. |
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Tony O'Malley HRHA (1913-2003)
UNTITLED, 1973
Signature: signed in Irish and dated [May 1973] lower centre; inscribed on reverse with artist’s Porthemeor studio address
Medium: watercolour and gouache on paper
Dimensions: 25 by 39cm., 10 by 15.5in.
Provenance: Private collection, Manchester
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 30
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€4,000-6,000
Price Realised:
€0 |
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Richard Kingston RHA (1922-2003)
ABSTRACTED LANDSCAPE
Signature: signed lower left; Dawson Gallery framing label on reverse
Medium: oil on canvas laid on board
Dimensions: 23 by 36cm., 9.25 by 14in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 31
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€2,500-3,500
Price Realised:
€2200 |
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Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957)
ILLUSTRATION TO AND TO YOU ALSO
Signature: signed in monogram lower left
Medium: pen and ink drawing
Dimensions: 19 by 14cm., 7.5 by 5.5in.
Provenance: The artist's estate; Victor Waddington, London; Private collection, Co. Cork
Exhibited:
Literature: Jack B. Yeats And to You Also, Routledge, London, 1944, illustrated page 125;
Hilary Pyle, The Different Worlds of Jack B. Yeats: His Cartoons and Illustrations, Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1994, page 231, catalogue no. 1651 |
Lot
No.: 32
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€5,000-7,000
Price Realised:
€4800 |
| With a letter of authenticity from Dr. Hilary Pyle. |
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Daniel O'Neill (1920-1974)
THE VISITATION
Signature: signed lower left; inscribed with title and number (5499) on reverse
Medium:
Dimensions: 69 by 51cm., 27 by 20in.
Provenance: James Adam & Sons, Dublin, 8 October 1987, lot 129; Whence purchased by the present owner
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 33
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€30,000-40,000
Price Realised:
€0 |
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Gretta Bowen (1880-1981)
THE FISHERMAN
Signature: signed lower right; inscribed on reverse
Medium: gouache on board
Dimensions: 37 by 51cm., 14.5 by 20in.
Provenance:
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Lot
No.: 34
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€2,500-3,500
Price Realised:
€2400 |
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Markey Robinson (1918-1999)
HILLSIDE VILLAGE
Signature: signed lower left
Medium: oil on board
Dimensions: 61 by 102cm., 24 by 40in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 35
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€7,000-9,000
Price Realised:
€6700 |
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Daniel O'Neill (1920-1974)
THREE CHILDREN
Signature: signed lower left; inscribed on reverse; also with original label inscribed by Victor Waddington on reverse
Medium: oil on board
Dimensions: 41 by 30cm., 16 by 12in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 36
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€15,000-20,000
Price Realised:
€24000 |
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Daniel O'Neill (1920-1974)
COMPANIONS
Signature: signed lower right; inscribed on reverse; also with exhibition label on reverse
Medium: oil on board
Dimensions: 36 by 53cm., 14 by 21in.
Provenance: Framed at the Dawson Gallery, Dublin, April 1966;
Taylor Galleries, Dublin;
James Adam Salesrooms, Dublin, October 1986, lot 173;
Whence purchased by the current owner
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 37
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€12,000-15,000
Price Realised:
€14000 |
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Seán Keating PRHA HRA HRSA (1889-1977)
SELF PORTRAIT IN ARAB COSTUME
Signature: signed lower right; with Waddington framing label on reverse
Medium: pastel on tinted paper
Dimensions: 47 by 37cm., 18.5 by 14.5in.
Provenance: Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin; George Gallery Auction, Dublin, 17 July 1990, lot 69 (as Head of an Arab); Whence purchased by the present owner
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 38
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€8,000-10,000
Price Realised:
€10500 |
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Daniel O'Neill (1920-1974)
STILL LIFE WITH SHEET MUSIC, FLOWERS AND PIPE
Signature: signed upper right
Medium: oil on board
Dimensions: 41 by 51cm., 16 by 20in.
Provenance: Arches Gallery, Belfast; Private collection
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 39
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€14,000-18,000
Price Realised:
€0 |
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Norah McGuiness (1901-1980)
CUBIST STILL LIFE WITH ROSES
Signature: embossed exhibition label with studio stamp on reverse
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 51 by 41cm., 20 by 16in.
Provenance: The artist's studio; Frederick Gallery, Dublin; Private collection
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 40
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€10,000-12,000
Price Realised:
€16000 |
| Authenticated by the artist's sister Rhoda McGuinness on reverse. |
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Patrick Leonard HRHA (b.1918)
SIMON'S BOAT, RUSH HARBOUR, EVENING, 1942
Signature: signed lower left; inscribed with title on reverse
Medium: oil on board
Dimensions: 36 by 46cm., 14 by 18in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 41
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€2,000-3,000
Price Realised:
€5200 |
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Arthur M. Campbell ARUA (1909-1994)
THE FISHING PORT AT CUSHENDALL, 1942
Signature: signed twice lower right; inscribed on reverse
Medium: watercolour over pencil
Dimensions: 28 by 38cm., 11 by 15in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 42
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€1,500-1,800
Price Realised:
€0 |
| Brother of George Campbell RHA, Arthur Campbell studied by night at the Belfast College of Art, whilst working for the Belfast advertising firm, W. & G. Baird. He first exhibited at the RHA in 1939 and five years later held a joint show with his brother at the Mol Gallery, Belfast. In the same year both brothers produced Now in Ulster (1944), with articles, photographs and illustrations by Arthur Campbell. His first one-man show was held in 1950, organised by CEMA (Council for the Encouragement of Music and Art). Shortly afterwards the Ulster Museum purchased four works for their collection. Campbell frequently used a camera as a visual aid for his painting, and his photographs of old Dublin and Belfast were exhibited alongside his watercolours in a retrospective exhibition held by the Northern Irish Arts Council in 1984. (See Snoddy, page 68-9). |
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Arthur M. Campbell ARUA (1909-1994)
BALLYCASTLE, COUNTY ANTRIM
Signature: signed and inscribed lower left
Medium: pastel on paper
Dimensions: 41 by 27cm., 16 by 10.5in.
Provenance:
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Lot
No.: 43
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€1,500-1,800
Price Realised:
€0 |
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Harry Kernoff RHA (1900-1974)
OLD SKERRIES WINDMILL
Signature: signed lower right; inscribed with title, date [1942] and price (£25) on reverse; also with Hendriks Gallery framing label on reverse
Medium: oil crayon on board
Dimensions: 39 by 29cm., 15.5 by 11.5in.
Provenance:
Exhibited: 'The 30th Anniversary Exhibition of Harry Kernoff (1900-1974)', Spiller Fine Art, Dublin, 16-26 February 2004, catalogue no. 12
Literature: |
Lot
No.: 44
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€8,000-10,000
Price Realised:
€13000 |
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Gerard Dillon (1916-1971)
THE WALL, 1940
Signature: signed lower left; inscribed labels and a Dawson Gallery framing label on reverse
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 36 by 56cm., 14 by 22in.
Provenance: The artist’s estate;
De Vere’s, Dublin, 8 March 1994, lot 39 (illustrated on front cover of catalogue);
Bell Gallery, Belfast;
Whence purchased in August 1994 by the present owner
Exhibited: ‘Gerard Dillon’, Arts Council of Northern Ireland and An Chomhairle Ealaíon, Ulster Museum, Belfast, November - December 1972 and Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin, January - February 1973, catalogue no. 10 (lent by the administrator of the estate of Gerard Dillon)
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Lot
No.: 45
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€40,000-60,000
Price Realised:
€56000 |
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Elizabeth Rivers (1903-1964)
STILL LIFE
Signature: signed and dated [1932] lower left; original inscribed label on reverse
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 36 by 28cm., 14 by 11in.
Provenance: Collection of Lucy Carrington Wertheim, London; Private collection
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 46
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€3,000-4,000
Price Realised:
€0 |
| An early work by Rivers, painted in 1932 whilst studying in Paris with André Lhote. In the same year she was represented in London in the Wertheim Gallery’s ‘Twenties Group’, an exhibition of work by young artists in their twenties. Gallery owner Lucy Carrington Wertheim was an early collector of Rivers’ work and organised her first solo exhibition, held in 1933. |
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Father Jack P. Hanlon (1913-1968)
SUNFLOWERS
Signature:
Medium: watercolour
Dimensions: 79 by 57cm., 31 by 22.5in.
Provenance:
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Lot
No.: 47
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€4,000-5,000
Price Realised:
€0 |
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Father Jack P. Hanlon (1913-1968)
STILL LIFE WITH PLUMS
Signature:
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 30 by 46cm., 12 by 18in.
Provenance: Bequeathed by the artist to the present owner
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 48
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€4,000-5,000
Price Realised:
€3800 |
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Evie Hone (1894-1955)
EMMY SEATED IN THE GARDEN
Signature: inscribed on reverse by the first owner: “By Evie Hone / Emmy / Her Housekeeper”; typed labels on reverse
Medium: watercolour and gouache on artist's board
Dimensions: 26 by 36cm., 10.2 by 14in.
Provenance: Gift of the artist to William Dowling (1907-1980) of the Harry Clarke Stained Glass Studios, circa 1940; John H. Clarke, by 1981; Private collection, Northern Ireland
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 49
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€5,000-6,000
Price Realised:
€0 |
| A portrait of Evie Hone's housekeeper Emmy, in the garden at Marlay, Rathfarnham. |
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Frank Egginton RCA (1908-1990)
NEAR GEARHA BRIDGE, SNEEM, COUNTY KERRY
Signature: signed and dated [1976] lower left; inscribed on reverse (beneath backing board)
Medium: watercolour on artist's board
Dimensions: 53 by 76cm., 21 by 30in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 50
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€4,000-6,000
Price Realised:
€7200 |
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Frank Egginton RCA (1908-1990)
ERRISBEG, CONNEMARA
Signature: signed and dated [1985] lower right; original exhibition label on reverse
Medium: watercolour
Dimensions: 38 by 55cm., 15 by 21.5in.
Provenance: Alexander Gallery, Bristol; Private collection, Northern Ireland
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 51
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€2,000-3,000
Price Realised:
€3000 |
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Charles Vincent Lamb RHA RUA (1893-1964)
CATTLE GRAZING BY A COTTAGE, CARRAROE, COUNTY GALWAY
Signature: signed lower left
Medium: oil on board
Dimensions: 26 by 36cm., 10.2 by 14in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 52
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€3,500-4,500
Price Realised:
€3800 |
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Charles Vincent Lamb RHA RUA (1893-1964)
THATCHED COTTAGES WITH TREES AND FIELD
Signature: signed lower left
Medium: oil on panel
Dimensions: 26 by 36cm., 10.2 by 14in.
Provenance:
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Lot
No.: 53
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€3,500-4,500
Price Realised:
€5000 |
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William Conor RHA RUA ROI (1881-1968)
WAITING FOR THE EXCURSION TRAIN
Signature: signed upper left; inscribed in another hand on reverse
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 64 by 76cm., 25 by 30in.
Provenance:
Exhibited: Royal Academy, London, 1938, catalogue no. 506;
Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Art, Glasgow, 1939, catalogue no. 348 (£50);
RHA, Dublin, 1939, catalogue no. 181 (£70-0-0);
Ulster Academy of Arts, Belfast, 1944, catalogue no. 32 (£130-0-0);
‘An Exhibition of Recent Paintings by William Conor’, Council for the Encouragement of Music and Art (CEMA), Belfast, 1945, catalogue no. 3
Literature: Judith C. Wilson, William Conor 1881-1968 - The Life and Work of an Ulster Artist, Blackstaff Press, Belfast, 1981, pages 148-150 |
Lot
No.: 54
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€40,000-50,000
Price Realised:
€36000 |
| Conor’s Waiting for the Excursion Train was also exhibited in the United States during 1939-1940. In February 1939 Victor Waddington took this and other paintings to North America with the aim of establishing a foreign market for contemporary Irish art. Prior to sailing for the US, Waddington exhibited the works in his Dublin gallery, where they were reviewed by the press. One critic noted “there is human feeling and good composition in Mr Conor's Waiting for the Excursion Train” ('Irish Art For America’, The Irish Times, 13 February 1939, page 8). |
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Thomas Ryan PPRHA (b.1929)
SEATED WOMAN WITH ST BRIGID'S CROSS
Signature: signed, inscribed "Limerick" and dated [23 July 1970] lower right
Medium: sanguine conté crayon on paper
Dimensions: 46 by 34cm., 18 by 13.5in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 55
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€1,200-1,500
Price Realised:
€2000 |
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William Conor RHA RUA ROI (1881-1968)
STUDY OF A MILL GIRL, circa 1932
Signature: signed lower right
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 38 by 27cm., 15 by 10.5in.
Provenance: Bell Gallery, Belfast; Private collection, Belfast
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 56
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€6,000-8,000
Price Realised:
€0 |
| Study for one of the mill girls depicted in Conor's mural, Ulster Past and Present, now in the Ulster Museum, Belfast. A copy of the 1981 centenary exhibition catalogue is included with lot. |
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Frank McKelvey RHA RUA (1895-1974)
FEEDING THE HENS
Signature: signed and dated [1920] lower left; inscribed label on reverse
Medium: watercolour over pencil
Dimensions: 36 by 25cm., 14 by 10in.
Provenance: William Rodman & Co., Belfast; Private collection
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 57
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€12,000-15,000
Price Realised:
€11000 |
| This work relates to an oil painting of 1921, Woman Feeding Hens, which sold through these rooms in 21 September 2004, lot 84. |
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Maurice Canning Wilks RUA ARHA (1910-1984)
WOMEN AND HENS OUTSIDE THATCHED COTTAGES, MOUNTAINS BEYOND
Signature: signed lower right
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 41 by 51cm., 16 by 20in.
Provenance:
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Lot
No.: 58
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€9,000-12,000
Price Realised:
€9000 |
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Frank McKelvey RHA RUA (1895-1974)
AN IRISH FARMYARD
Signature: signed lower left
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 41 by 51cm., 16 by 20in.
Provenance:
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Lot
No.: 59
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€60,000-70,000
Price Realised:
€0 |
| Painted circa 1940s and in the original frame of F. G. Davis & Sons, Belfast. In his monograph on McKelvey, Dr S. B. Kennedy noted that in works from this period “the subject-matter is unchanged from earlier decades, but the scale of colours is brighter than before and the brushwork is more delicate with at times a feathery quality to it. … These compositions … represent a way of life on the eve of change, when farming began to assume its contemporary ‘industrial’ character. The farm buildings depicted are traditional in style and construction, the chickens run freely about the farmyard, all exist in perpetual summer. It is the recording of such scenes that, apart from the aesthetic qualities of his art, makes the work of Frank McKelvey so appealing to us nowadays” (S. B. Kennedy, Frank McKelvey RHA RUA: A Painter in His Time, Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1993, page 70). |
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William John Leech RHA ROI (1881-1968)
PORTRAIT OF ELIZABETH, circa 1910-1912
Signature: signed twice lower left; original exhibition label and provenance details on reverse
Medium: watercolour over pencil
Dimensions: 53 by 37cm., 21 by 14.5in.
Provenance: Bequeathed by the artist to Leo Smith of the Dawson Gallery, Dublin, 1968;
Sold by Leo Smith to Terence de Vere White as Saurin;
Private collection, London;
Oriel Gallery, Dublin;
De Vere’s Art Auction, 24 September 2002, lot 35 (illustrated on front cover of catalogue);
Private collection
Exhibited: (?) Goupil Gallery Salon, London, November - December 1911 as Portrait, watercolour, £21;
‘William John Leech: An Irish Painter Abroad’, National Gallery of Ireland, 23 October - 15 December 1996; Museé‚ des Beaux Arts, Quimper, 10 January - 10 March 1997 and the Ulster Museum, Belfast, 28 March - 22 June 1997, catalogue no. 39
Literature: Denise Ferran, William John Leech: An Irish Painter Abroad, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, 1996, pages 19, 64, 174, 175 (illustrated) |
Lot
No.: 60
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€25,000-35,000
Price Realised:
€22000 |
| A portrait of the artist’s first wife, Saurin Elizabeth Leech (formerly Mrs Kerlin, neé Lane). Elizabeth was an American born artist who trained at the School of Fine Art in Boston. Leech met her in Concarneau circa 1909 and they were married in London in June 1912. She was the model for many of his best known works including The Cigarette and The Tinsel Scarf (L’Actrice) (both in the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin), and The Sunshade and A Convent Garden (both in the National Gallery of Ireland).
Denise Ferran has written of the present work: “Leech displays a masterly control of the watercolour medium in the depiction of Elizabeth, in a work which is reputed to have been painted on their honeymoon in 1912. The gentle tones of soft greys, greens and white heighten the vulnerable beauty of his wife, captured with her hair loose and tumbling on to her white night-dress and against the white pillows. The freedom expressed in the flowing hair, the subtlety of skin tone, the capturing of white on white and the momentary turn of the head demonstrate Leech’s ability to paint in watercolour” (Ferran, op. cit., page 174). |
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William Percy French (1854-1920)
THE GARDEN THAT I LOVE
Signature: signed twice and dated [10 September 1917] lower right; inscribed with title and price (£1-10) on reverse
Medium: watercolour on artist's board
Dimensions: 18 by 25cm., 7 by 10in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 61
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€4,000-6,000
Price Realised:
€6000 |
| The title is a quotation from Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892): “Not wholly in the busy world, nor quite / Beyond it, blooms the garden that I love”. An earlier, slightly larger work by the same title was sold through these rooms, 19 November 2002, lot 62 (€14,000). |
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James Humbert Craig RHA RUA (1877-1944)
MILKING TIME
Signature: signed lower left; original label inscribed with title and price (£10-10-0) and original exhibition labels on reverse
Medium: oil on panel
Dimensions: 24 by 34cm., 9.5 by 13.2in.
Provenance: F. N. Hepworth, Stanwix House, Carlisle; Christie's, Glasgow, 27 November 1996, lot 653; Christie's, London, 21 May 1997, lot 83; De Vere's, Dublin, 20 November 2001, lot 199
Exhibited: Fine Art Society, 1928, catalogue no. 14
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Lot
No.: 62
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€12,000-15,000
Price Realised:
€19000 |
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Paul Henry RHA (1876-1958)
THE FLOCK, 1910
Signature: signed lower right; inscribed on reverse with the artist’s address “Beaufort Cottage, Knapp Hill, Surrey”
Medium: pencil and charcoal on paper
Dimensions: 22 by 28cm., 8.5 by 11in.
Provenance: Taylor de Vere's, Dublin, 12 October 1993, lot 25, as Driving Home the Sheep reproduced in the catalogue; Whence purchased by the father of the present owner
Exhibited: RHA, Dublin, Spring 1910, catalogue no. 367 (12 guineas)
Literature: Ann M. Stewart (ed.), Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts: Index of Exhibitors and their Works 1826-1979, 3 vols., Manton Publishing, Dublin, 1985, vol. 2, page 81;
S. B. Kennedy, Paul Henry, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2000, page 40 |
Lot
No.: 63
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€10,000-15,000
Price Realised:
€44000 |
| During his later years in London, from around 1906 till 1910, Henry had made and exhibited a number of drawings which had been much admired. These drawings, which were usually based on the landscape near to where he lived at Knapp Hill in Surrey, were in fact an extension of his more figurative work as an illustrator for newspapers and journals. As in all his work of the time, however, charcoal was his preferred medium. “No chalk or crayon has the same soft, velvety quality, no other material is so sensitive and tractable”, he later wrote (Henry, autobiography, An Irish Portrait, 1951, page 29). Henry had a consummate mastery over charcoal as a medium, as Frank Rutter of The Times once noted, saying that he used it “with rare discretion” and could coax from it “the tenderest effects of which it is capable” (The Times, undated review of the Goupil Gallery Salon, June 1906).
The Flock admirably illustrates all these qualities. Made in the early spring of 1910, before he visited Achill Island, it was almost certainly intended for that year’s Royal Hibernian Academy show. Priced at twelve guineas Henry clearly regarded it as a finished drawing and not merely a study for a later work. In his Further Reminiscences (published posthumously in 1973) he related how he had come to first exhibit at the RHA. In about 1908, he said, in London, he had met Hugh (later Sir) Lane who mentioned his name to Dermod O’Brien, a prominent member of the Academy. O’Brien subsequently wrote to him, saying that Lane had been greatly impressed by his work which he thought “would be appreciated in Dublin” (in Ireland Henry’s work had previously been seen only in Belfast). Lane had also suggested that he might even have a wall to himself at the RHA exhibition (Further Reminiscences, page 64). In the event he submitted just two drawings, The West Wind, 1908, and The Flock, 1910, the former being one of the drawings that had so impressed Hugh Lane.*
In The Flock we see Henry at the height of his powers. The scene is almost certainly in Surrey and while the shepherd and his flock of sheep are the ostensible subject of the picture, in fact the landscape holds our attention. The overall mood is determined by the closely woven ‘Whistlerish’ tones which bind everything together and in the treatment of the open ground, with little to interest us except the gentle rise of the track trodden by the sheep, which leads on to the distant hill, and the almost theatricality of the clouds which seem to peer over the horizon, we see Henry’s ability to dazzle us with the mastery of his technical prowess.
The Flock is numbered 159 in S. B. Kennedy’s forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Paul Henry’s oeuvre.
* The West Wind was sold at Whyte’s, Dublin, ‘Important Irish Art’, 26 April 2005, lot 51, reproduced in the catalogue.
Dr S. B. Kennedy,
Belfast, August 2005 |
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Mildred Anne Butler RWS (1858-1941)
PASTURELAND
Signature: signed lower right; original label on reverse inscribed with title, price (£8-0-0) and exhibition details
Medium: watercolour heightened with white
Dimensions: 18 by 25cm., 7 by 10in.
Provenance:
Exhibited: WCSI, Dublin, 1932, catalogue no. 32 (£8-0-0)
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Lot
No.: 64
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€5,000-7,000
Price Realised:
€5200 |
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William Bingham McGuinness RHA (1849-1928)
COASTAL SCENE WITH ROW-BOAT ON STRAND and AN INLET WITH SEAWEED AND ROCKS AT LOW TIDE (A PAIR)
Signature: each signed lower left
Medium: watercolour over pencil heightened with white
Dimensions: 26 by 36cm., 10.2 by 14in.
Provenance:
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Lot
No.: 65
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€2,500-3,500
Price Realised:
€0 |
| The second work is of same dimensions as the first. |
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William Percy French (1854-1920)
WHERE EVER I GO MY HEART TURNS BACK TO THE COUNTY MAYO
Signature: signed and dated [1902] lower left; original label on reverse inscribed with title, price (£10-10-0) and the artist’s address (21 Clifton Hill, N. W. London)
Medium: watercolour
Dimensions: 30 by 50cm., 12 by 19.5in.
Provenance: Rupert Guinness, Second Earl of Iveagh;
His sale, Iveagh House, 80 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin, auction conducted by Battersby’s, 28 September 1939, lot 386, where catalogued as Mountain, Bog and River (in Celtic design frame);
Private collection, Co. Waterford
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 66
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€20,000-25,000
Price Realised:
€44000 |
| In the original pokerwork frame with Celtic interlaced knot design. |
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William Percy French (1854-1920)
A BOGLAND RIVER WITH HEATHER IN FLOWER
Signature: signed and indistinctly dated [1910?] lower right
Medium: watercolour
Dimensions: 21 by 28cm., 8.25 by 11in.
Provenance:
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Lot
No.: 67
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€4,000-6,000
Price Realised:
€6700 |
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Maurice Canning Wilks RUA ARHA (1910-1984)
AUGUST EVENING, CUSHENDUN, COUNTY ANTRIM
Signature: signed lower left; inscribed and dated [1944] on reverse
Medium: oil on canvas board
Dimensions: 30 by 41cm., 12 by 16in.
Provenance: John Magee, Belfast; Mr R. Hamilton; Private collection
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 68
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€3,000-5,000
Price Realised:
€5200 |
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Mildred Anne Butler RWS (1858-1941)
A WOMAN SEWING BY A WINDOW
Signature: signed lower right; inscribed "No. 2" lower left
Medium: watercolour over black chalk on paper mounted on card
Dimensions: 39 by 28cm., 15.2 by 11in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 69
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€6,000-8,000
Price Realised:
€0 |
| With the framing label of S. T. Townsend, Norwich, on reverse; also with the remains of an exhibition label, numbered 569, on reverse. |
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Sir William Orpen RA RI HRHA (1878-1931)
STUDY FOR SWINTON FAMILY PORTRAIT, circa 1901
Signature:
Medium: pen and ink
Dimensions: 17 by 19cm., 6.5 by 7.5in.
Provenance: Sketchbook given by the artist to fellow Slade School student, Michael Salaman;
Pyms Gallery, London;
Frederick Gallery, Dublin;
Whyte’s, 29 April 2003, lot 83;
Private collection, Dublin
Exhibited: 'William Orpen: Early Work', Pyms Gallery, London, 20 May - 12 June 1981, catalogue no. 79 (illustrated); 'Drawings, Etchings and Engravings', Frederick Gallery, Dublin, November 1998, catalogue no. 11
Literature: Bruce Arnold, Orpen: Mirror to an Age, Jonathan Cape, London, 1981, pagees 91, 97 |
Lot
No.: 70
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€1,800-2,200
Price Realised:
€0 |
| This work is a preliminary sketch for one of Orpen’s earliest commissions, a portrait of Sir George Swinton (a member of the London Corporation) with his wife (an actress) and their two children, illustrated on page 97 of Orpen: Mirror to an Age. One of six known studies for the painting, it reveals, according to Bruce Arnold, “the development of relationships in an ambitious type of work, of a kind of which Orpen painted regularly from 1900 until the First World War”. |
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Sir William Orpen RA RHA (1978-1931)
FIGURES HARVESTING, NORMANDY, circa 1899-1904
Signature: inscribed by the artist's daughter, Diana Orpen, on reverse; also with exhibition label on reverse
Medium: pencil on paper
Dimensions: 19 by 37cm., 7.5 by 14.5in.
Provenance: The artist's family; Sold on their behalf by Cassian de Vere Cole Fine Art, London, July 2002; Private collection, Northern Ireland
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 71
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€3,000-4,000
Price Realised:
€0 |
| Recently rediscovered by the artist’s daughter, Diana Orpen, in an envelope that also contained a cartoon by Orpen titled the New English Art Club Outing (circa 1904). The latter work has since been purchased by the National Portrait Gallery, London, whilst the present drawing has been authenticated on reverse by Diana Orpen. |
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William John Leech RHA ROI (1881-1968)
THREE CHILDREN IN A SUMMER LANDSCAPE
Signature:
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 52 by 47cm., 20.5 by 18.5in.
Provenance: 'Cuilim', Alleys River Road, Old Connor, Bray, house auction conducted by HOK, 19 June 1991, lot 424; Whence purchased by the parents of the current owner
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 72
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€12,000-15,000
Price Realised:
€14500 |
| Leech first included children in a landscape in Twas Brillig, (1910) . This work and his subsequent beach scenes at Concarneau, Brittany, show his debt to Walter Osborne and Wilson Steer in their Walberswick paintings. In Beach Parasols on the Beach and Paper Parasols circa (1920-30), he captures children in movement with quick brushstrokes indicating legs and arms and a few fluid strokes for clothing. In particular in Beach Scene (18 x 22in.) painted circa 1922, a young girl bends protectively over a younger boy and Leech captures her in white hat and dress against dark legs similar to the figure of the girl in Three Children in a Summer Landscape.
Leech didn’t have children but in England he sympathetically painted his nieces and nephews and May Botterell’s three children. In France he painted the three children of the New Zealand artist Sydney Lough Thompson who he had first met at the Academie Julian in 1901 and remained a lifelong friend. After Thompson married Ethel Coe in New Zealand in 1911 the couple came to Concarneau where their first daughter Annette was born in 1915, followed by Mary in 1920 and Jan their son in 1922 (1). Annette Thompson fondly remembered Leech being part of her childhood, frequently painting them at play on the beach in Concarneau or in their garden near Grasse (2) where the Thompson family rented a house for the Winter/Spring period from 1926 – 1933 (3). Leech and Thompson painted the landscape together and they nicknamed it “La Vallée de la joie.” The warm red ochre of the soil and the strong sunlight filtering through the trees and bushes in the present work suggests it was painted in “Happy Valley” and judging from the age of the children to circa 1929,
(1) Ethel Thompson’s unpublished records. Copy, collection of the author.
(2) Conversations and correspondence with Annette Thompson and author, Concarneau, France 1989–2001
(3) E. Thompson’s records.
Dr Denise Ferran
August 2005 |
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Sir John Lavery RA RHA RSA (1856-1941)
MOONRISE TANGIER BAY
Signature: signed and inscribed lower left; signed again, inscribed and dated [1910] on reverse
Medium: oil on canvas board
Dimensions: 25 by 36cm., 10 by 14in.
Provenance: Gift from the artist to his best man, Robert Cunninghame Graham MP (1852-1936); By descent to his niece; Private collection
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 73
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€30,000-40,000
Price Realised:
€24000 |
| After 1903, when he resumed his regular annual visits to Tangier and acquired the winter retreat of Dar-el-Midfah, Lavery was keenly attracted to panoramic vistas of the Straits of Gibraltar to the west of the city and the Mediterranean, overlooking Tangier Bay to the east. The low-lying land around the bay, which accommodated the city’s expansion in the twentieth century, provided splendid views of sea and sky looking towards Cape Matabalah, and close to the Villa Harris, home to Walter Harris, the acclaimed Times correspondent. Here Lavery painted a large number of beach scenes, looking back towards the walled city at sunset and over the sea at moonrise. Numerous travel writers comment upon the quality of light at such moments on this stretch of the North African coast. None of the many artists who visited the city, from Eugène Delacroix in the early nineteenth century, to Henri Matisse in the early twentieth, responded to its extraordinary effects with the enthusiasm of Lavery. In small oil sketches such as Moonrise and Dawn (lot xx) he delighted in the subtle blues of morning and the creamy pinks and mauves of twilight.
Cunninghame Graham (1852-1936), to whom the present work is inscribed, was a renowned Scots adventurer and laird of Gartmore. He met Lavery in the early nineties in Tangier, when he reined in the painter’s runaway horse. A larger-than-life character, he had travelled extensively in the Americas, at one time earning money as a fencing instructor in Mexico City. A political radical, he took the seat for North West Lanarkshire in 1886 and the following year was imprisoned for his part in the Free Speech Riots in Trafalgar Square. By the time he met Lavery, he was becoming disaffected with politics and relinquished his seat in the general election of 1892. Around this time Cunninghame Graham became more interested in the art world, cutting a flamboyant figure at private views. Although his portrait was painted by Percy Jacomb Hood, William Rothenstein and Ignazio Zuloaga, Lavery’s full-length, Harmony in Brown, 1893 (Glasgow City Art Gallery) is the definitive representation. Of this George Bernard Shaw famously remarked – ‘He is a Spanish hidalgo, hence the superbity of his portrait by Lavery (Velazquez no longer being available)’ (Kenneth McConkey, Sir John Lavery, 1993, p. 70). A head and shoulders study of c. 1893 is in the collection of the sitters’ descendents (McConkey, fig 73) and a large equestrian portrait, RB Cunnighame Graham on ‘Pampa’, (President’s Palace, Buenos Aires) was painted in 1898. Cunninghame Graham remained a regular visitor to Lavery’s studio up until the Great War and during these years he wrote a ‘prefatory note’ to the catalogue of Lavery’s solo exhibition at the Leicester Galleries in 1904 and the preface to Walter Shaw Sparrow’s John Lavery and his Work, (1911). His memoir of Tangier in the pre-First World War years, Writ in Sand, was published in 1932. It may well be the case that the present work was given to Cunninghame Graham in gratitude for his services either in relation to Lavery’s wedding or for his support in the Shaw Sparrow publication.
Kenneth McConkey |
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Sir John Lavery RA RHA RSA (1856-1941)
DAWN, WHERE "THE JEWS RIVER" JOINS THE SEA
Signature: signed and inscribed lower right; signed again, inscribed and dated [1910] on reverse
Medium: oil on canvas board
Dimensions: 25 by 36cm., 10 by 14in.
Provenance: Gift from the artist to his best man, Robert Cunninghame Graham MP (1852-1936); By descent to his niece; Private collection
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Lot
No.: 74
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€30,000-40,000
Price Realised:
€23000 |
| Dawn is one of the simplest and most evocative of Lavery’s small seascapes painted at Tangier. While he sometimes declared that his winter sojourns on the North African coast helped him to wash the dull London studio light from his eyes, the experience also endlessly challenged him to compose what, in the present example, is an almost abstract composition – a taste which he derived from Whistler. As Vice-President during Whistler’s presidency of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, Lavery would have been familiar with seascapes such as Grey and Silver, Trouville, (Freer Gallery of Art, Washington) and Green and Silver, The Great Sea, (Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow), which Whistler showed at the International Society shows of 1899 and 1901 respectively. He would have seen Monet’s La Plage des Petites Dalles (destroyed), shown at the second of these exhibitions and would have also been aware of the enormous influence of such works in the years up to 1910, on artists as diverse as William Nicholson and William John Leech. It is worth pointing out however, that by this stage Lavery had already produced notable Tangier beach scenes – particularly Tangier - The White City, 1893 (Private Collection).
The present picture is likely to have been painted at the eastern end of Tangier Bay, where the Oued Souami breaks into tributaries, flowing across the sands and into the sea. Crosscurrents at this location exposed rocks in the sea which were often painted by the artist, as in Tangier Bay, Rain, 1910 Ulster Museum, Belfast). Although its course runs not far from the Jewish Cemetery, the source of the reference to this as ‘the Jews River’ remains obscure. Arabs occasionally fished on the beach, in the eddies of Oued Souami and on one occasion Lavery apparently posed his wife Hazel as The Angler, at this location (sold Sotheby’s 16 May 2002). Other examples of works produced at this viewpoint include The End of the Day, Tangier Bay (sold Christie’s 19 May 2000), showing two children on the beach. The present work omits such human interest, allowing the painter to concentrate exclusively on the simple, yet subtle gradations of shape and colour expressing that moment of calm before the heat and hubbub of the day begins.
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Lilian Lucy Davidson ARHA (1893-1954)
THE COURTYARD, FRIAR'S HILL
Signature: signed in monogram lower left; original exhibition label on reverse inscribed with title and price (£7-10-0)
Medium: gouache on buff-coloured card
Dimensions: 37 by 25cm., 14.5 by 10in.
Provenance: Dermod O'Brien PRHA; By descent to Dr Brendan O'Brien; Private collection
Exhibited: WCSI, 1940, catalogue no 131 (£7-10-0); WCSI, 1954, catalogue no. 38, lent by Dr Brendan O'Brien in memory of the artist
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Lot
No.: 75
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€2,000-3,000
Price Realised:
€2300 |
| After her father’s death, Lilian Lucy Davidson moved to Dublin, but would occasionally return to her home town Wicklow and to Arklow to paint. When doing so she would stay at “Major Grimshaw's house, Friar’s Hill, where he kept paying guests” (Irish Arts Review, 1999). The present work depicts the courtyard of Major Grimshaw’s house. |
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Estella Frances Solomons HRHA (1882-1968)
RATHFARNHAM WOODS
Signature: signed lower left; with the framing label of the Dawson Gallery, Dublin, on reverse
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 56 by 30cm., 22 by 12in.
Provenance: Dr Michael Solomons, the artist's nephew; From whom puchased circa 1960s by the father of the present owner
Exhibited: 'Estella Solomons', Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin, private exhibition in aid of CORA (Committee of Refugee Aid), circa 1960s
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Lot
No.: 76
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€3,000-5,000
Price Realised:
€3300 |
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Roderic O'Conor (1860-1940)
SENTIER À TRAVERS LES ARBES / PATH THROUGH THE TREES, circa 1893
Signature:
Medium: restrike etching on cream wove paper (unframed)
Dimensions: 33 by 30cm., 13 by 12in.
Provenance: Paul Prouté, Gravures et Dessins, Rue de Seine and Rue Clément, Paris; Private collection
Exhibited:
Literature: Richard Field, Cynthia L. Strauss and Samuel J. Wagstaff, The Prints of Armand Seguin, 1869-1903, Wesleyan University, Connecticut, 1980, page 13;
Roy Johnston, Roderic O’Conor 1860-1940, Musée du Pont-Aven, 1984, page 80;
Roy Johnston, ‘Les gravures de Roderic O’Conor’, in Pont-Aven et ses peintures à propos d’un centenaire, Presses University de Rennes, 1986, pages 147-8;
Jonathan Benington, Roderic O’Conor, Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1992, page 237, catalogue no. 447;
Roy Johnston, Roderic O’Conor 1860-1940: Catalogue de l’oeuvre gravé / The prints of Roderic O’Conor, Musée du Pont-Aven, 1999, pages 44-45 (illustrated) |
Lot
No.: 77
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€3,000-5,000
Price Realised:
€2800 |
| Formerly misattributed to Armand Seguin. The original plate for this print was sold at Hotel Drouot on 17 November 1975 (lot 172 no. 1) as Chemin sous bois. Later printed as a restrike by Paul Prout‚ S.A. in 1981, in an edition of 100 with the title Sentier à travers les arbres. |
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Renée O'Conor (neé Honta) (1894-1955)
STILL LIFE WITH APPLES AND ANEMONIES
Signature: signed lower left
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 61 by 71cm., 24 by 28in.
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Lot
No.: 80
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€5,000-7,000
Price Realised:
€0 |
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Renée O'Conor (neé Honta) (1894-1955)
MODEL IN A RED VEST, SEATED WITH A BOOK ON HER LAP
Signature: signed upper right; original exhibition label on reverse
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 66 by 55cm., 26 by 21.5in.
Provenance:
Exhibited: First exhibition of the Salon du Montparnasse, 1923, catalogue no. 322
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Lot
No.: 81
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€5,000-7,000
Price Realised:
€0 |
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Father Jack P. Hanlon (1913-1968)
MIXED FLOWERS ON A BALCONY OVERLOOKING BOATS ON WATER
Signature: signed and inscribed "Summer 1936" on reverse
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 44 by 41cm., 17.5 by 16in.
Provenance: Eimear Gallery, Belfast; Private collection
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Lot
No.: 82
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€8,000-10,000
Price Realised:
€0 |
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Mary Duncan (1885-1964)
TULIPS
Signature: signed lower centre; original label on reverse inscribed with title, price and artist's address in Penzance
Medium: oil on panel
Dimensions: 51 by 41cm., 20 by 16in.
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Lot
No.: 83
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€1,000-1,500
Price Realised:
€1800 |
| Born in Englandm Duncan stusied at the Bromley School of Art, the Slade and in Paris. In 1907 she began exhibiting with the RSA, giving an address in Glasgow, and three years later had arrived in Dublin, taking studios firstly in North Great George’s Street, then in Brunswick Street (now Pearse Street). In Dublin she renewed her friendship with Estella Solomons, whom she had known at the Slade; a portrait of Solomons by Duncan is in Trinity College. She remained in Dublin for over a decade, before moving to London and later Cornwall. During the 1920s she showed regularly at the RHA, the RSA and the RA. She also had a show at the Arlington Gallery in London, alongside Estella Solomons and Louise Jacobs. Duncan’s work is in the collections of the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, the Model and Niland Centre in Sligo, and the National Portrai t Gallery in London among others. |
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Rose Brigid Ganly HRHA (1902-2002)
VENCE FROM THE HILL, 1933
Signature: signed with initials lower left; inscribed on reverse
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 25 by 36cm., 10 by 14in.
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Lot
No.: 84
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€1,800-2,200
Price Realised:
€4200 |
| Painted whilst the artist was on her honeymoon on the Cote D'Azur in 1933. |
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Mary Duncan (1885-1964)
FARM BUILDINGS WITH HENS BY A POND
Signature: signed lower centre; with the framing label of Chelmold's, Calcutta, on reverse
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 46 by 56cm., 18 by 22in.
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Lot
No.: 85
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€2,000-3,000
Price Realised:
€0 |
| See lot 83 for a biography of this artist. |
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Georgina Moutray Kyle RUA (1865-1950)
THE HARBOUR VOLENDAM, circa 1926-27
Signature: signed lower left
Medium: oil on canvas laid on board
Dimensions: 38 by 30cm., 15 by 12in.
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Lot
No.: 86
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€2,000-3,000
Price Realised:
€3400 |
| Born at Craigavad, Co. Down, Georgina Moutray Kyle studied at Colarossi’s in Paris during the 1880s, returning afterwards to Ireland with a distinctly modern palette and Post-Impressionist style. She became an active committee member of the Belfast Art Society (later called the Ulster Academy of Arts) and was a dominant persona in Belfast exhibitions in the 1920s and ‘30s (see Snoddy, page 328). At a retrospective organised last year by Queen’s University, Belfast, four other examples of Kyle’s Volendam landscapes were included, on loan from the Ulster Museum, the Armagh County Museum and private collections. |
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James Humbert Craig RHA RUA (1877-1944)
THE RIVER DUN, DONEGAL
Signature: signed lower left; with Victor Waddington Gallery framing label on reverse
Medium: oil on panel
Dimensions: 30 by 42cm., 12 by 16.5in.
Provenance:
Exhibited: (?) 'Recent Paintings by J. Humbert Craig, RHA', Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin, 12-22 November 1940, catalogue no. 2 (£15-15-0)
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Lot
No.: 87
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€6,000-8,000
Price Realised:
€5800 |
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Frank McKelvey RHA RUA (1895-1974)
A BEND OF THE RIVER LAGAN
Signature:
Medium: oil on panel
Dimensions: 36 by 46cm., 14 by 18in.
Provenance: John Magee, Belfast; Private collection
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Lot
No.: 88
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€4,000-6,000
Price Realised:
€5200 |
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Maurice Canning Wilks RUA ARHA (1910-1984)
MUCKISH MOUNTAIN FROM ARDS, CREESLOUGH, COUNTY DONEGAL
Signature: signed lower right; inscribed on reverse; also with original gallery label on reverse
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 51 by 66cm., 20 by 26in.
Provenance: Watson Art Galleries, Montreal; Private collection
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Lot
No.: 89
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€5,000-7,000
Price Realised:
€5400 |
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James Humbert Craig RHA RUA (1877-1944)
LANDSCAPE WITH FIGURE AND DONKEY
Signature: signed lower left
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 61 by 76cm., 24 by 30in.
Provenance:
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Lot
No.: 90
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€20,000-30,000
Price Realised:
€0 |
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James Humbert Craig RHA RUA (1877-1944)
FAIR HEAD, COUNTY ANTRIM
Signature: signed lower left; inscribed on reverse
Medium: oil on canvas laid on board
Dimensions: 25 by 36cm., 10 by 14in.
Provenance: Mrs Johnston, Craigavad Hospital; Private collection
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Lot
No.: 91
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€4,000-6,000
Price Realised:
€4800 |
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William Bingham McGuinness RHA (1849-1928)
FIGURE WITH DONKEY ON STRAND and RIVER LANDSCAPE WITH SAILBOAT AND WINDMILL (A PAIR)
Signature: former signed lower right; latter signed lower left
Medium: watercolour over pencil heightened with white
Dimensions: 24 by 34cm., 9.5 by 13.5in.
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Lot
No.: 92
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€2,000-3,000
Price Realised:
€3000 |
| The second work measures 13.5 by 9.5 inches. |
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James Humbert Craig RHA RUA (1877-1944)
TURF GATHERERS
Signature: signed lower right
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 56 by 76cm., 22 by 30in.
Provenance: Private collection, London
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Lot
No.: 93
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€15,000-20,000
Price Realised:
€0 |
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Charles J. McAuley RUA ARSA (1910-1999)
TURF CART ON A ROAD WITH COUPLE CONVERSING
Signature: signed lower left
Medium: oil on board
Dimensions: 34 by 43cm., 13.5 by 17in.
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Lot
No.: 94
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€3,000-4,000
Price Realised:
€4400 |
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Maurice Canning Wilks RUA ARHA (1910-1984)
AFTER THE STORM, ATALNTIC DRIVE, COUNTY DONEGAL
Signature: inscribed on reverse
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 41 by 76cm., 16 by 30in.
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Lot
No.: 95
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€4,000-5,000
Price Realised:
€5200 |
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Frank McKelvey RHA RUA (1895-1974)
FAIR DAY
Signature: signed lower left; typed exhibition label on reverse
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 36 by 48cm., 14 by 19in.
Provenance: Bell Gallery, Belfast; Taylor Gallery, Belfast; Private collection
Exhibited: (?) RHA, Dublin, 1965, catalogue no. 17, as Fair Day, Creeslough, Co. Donegal (£75-0-0);
‘St Patrick’s Weekend Exhibition of Fine Irish Paintings’, Taylor Gallery, Belfast, 15-29 March 2003, catalogue no. 1 (illustrated on front cover of catalogue)
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Lot
No.: 96
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€50,000-70,000
Price Realised:
€0 |
| McKelvey painted a series of market or fair day scenes in the latter part of his career. During the 1930s he had painted the subject on rare occasions (for an example of such see plate 19, Market Scene circa 1935-36, in S. B. Kennedy, Frank McKelvey, RHA, RUA: A Painter in His Time, Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1993), but in the last fifteen years of his life exhibited seven market scenes at the RHA. Two of these depicted the fair day in Roundstone, Co. Galway; another was painted in Creeslough, Co. Donegal, and is quite possibly the present work. |
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Charles Vincent Lamb RHA RUA (1893-1964)
VIEW ACROSS CARLINGFORD LOUGH TOWARDS THE COOLEY MOUNTAINS, COUNTY DOWN
Signature: signed lower left
Medium: oil on board
Dimensions: 33 by 41cm., 13 by 16in.
Provenance: Acquired by the present owner from the late Arthur Lamb, brother of the artist, Portadown
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Lot
No.: 97
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€2,500-3,500
Price Realised:
€2400 |
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Estella Frances Solomons HRHA (1882-1968)
BALLYMOSS, COUNTY DONEGAL
Signature: signed lower right; remains of inscribed label on reverse
Medium: oil on canvas laid on board
Dimensions: 32 by 39cm., 12.5 by 15.5in.
Provenance: The artist's studio (reference no. 39/69); Private collection
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Lot
No.: 98
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€1,800-2,200
Price Realised:
€1900 |
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Anne Primrose Jury RUA (1907-1995)
HORN HEAD, COUNTY DONEGAL
Signature: signed lower left; inscribed and dated [1943] on reverse
Medium: oil on canvas board
Dimensions: 25 by 33cm., 10 by 13in.
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Lot
No.: 99
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€1,500-2,000
Price Realised:
€1400 |
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George Campbell RHA (1917-1979)
TURF CUTTING IN A VALLEY
Signature: signed lower right
Medium: oil on board
Dimensions: 46 by 61cm., 18 by 24in.
Provenance: Oriel Gallery, Dublin; Private collection
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Lot
No.: 100
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€12,000-15,000
Price Realised:
€15500 |
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Seamus ó Colmáin (1925-1990)
STRAND, BALLYRUBIC, CONNEMARA
Signature: signed lower left; inscribed on reverse with title and price (65 gns); also with original exhibition label on reverse
Medium: oil on board
Dimensions: 61 by 74cm., 24 by 29in.
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Lot
No.: 101
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€2,000-3,000
Price Realised:
€0 |
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Arthur Armstrong RHA (1924-1996)
WET DAY, NEAR ROUNDSTONE
Signature: signed lower left; inscribed on reverse
Medium: oil on board
Dimensions: 51 by 61cm., 20 by 24in.
Provenance:
Exhibited: 'Aspects of Landscape: Exhibition of Paintings by Arthur Armstrong RHA', The Gallery 22, 22 St Stephen's Green, Dublin, 6-29 September 1978, catalogue no. 21 (£210)
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Lot
No.: 102
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€4,000-5,000
Price Realised:
€4200 |
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Patrick Collins HRHA (1911-1984)
MENHIRS
Signature: signed lower right; original exhibition label on reverse
Medium: oil on board
Dimensions: 30 by 46cm., 12 by 18in.
Provenance: Ritchie Hendriks Gallery, Dublin; Whence purchased by Sam Edgar, August 1961; James Adam Salesrooms, Dublin, March 1986, lot 87; Whence purchased by the present owner
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Lot
No.: 103
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€12,000-15,000
Price Realised:
€12000 |
| Collins went through an Expressionist phase in the early 1960s, painting in thick impasto with great vigour and bravura. During this period he painted a small series of works depicting menhirs, the prehistoric standing stones found both in Brittany and Ireland. In his 1961 exhibition at the Hendriks Gallery he showed two such works: Landscape with Menhirs (catalogue no. 11, 250 gns, purchased by the Arts Council) and Menhirs on the Plain, Brittany (catalogue no. 15, 45 gns). A third work, Three Menhirs (oil on board, 17 by 25 inches), painted around the same time, was purchased by the Jury’s Hotel Group. |
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Pádraig MacMíadhacháin RWA (b.1929)
STRONG WIND IN THE HARBOUR and MOORING LINES IN HARBOUR, ST IVES (A PAIR)
Signature: former signed lower centre and inscribed and dated [1999] on reverse; the latter signed and inscribed on reverse
Medium: oil and charcoal on canvas
Dimensions: 25 by 30cm., 10 by 12in.
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Lot
No.: 104
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€2,000-3,000
Price Realised:
€1900 |
| The second work measures 20 by 25cm, 8 by 10in. |
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Tony O'Malley HRHA (1913-2003)
MORNING LIGHT, BAHAMAS, SERIES NO. 7
Signature: signed with initials lower left; dated [January 1982] lower right; inscribed on reverse
Medium: gouache on paper laid on board
Dimensions: 36 by 55cm., 14 by 21.5in.
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Lot
No.: 105
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€5,000-7,000
Price Realised:
€6400 |
| No. 550 in the artist's oeuvre. |
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Tony O'Malley HRHA (1913-2003)
WINTER LIGHT
Signature: signed with initials upper left; inscribed with title mid left; inscribed and signed in full on reverse
Medium: oil on board
Dimensions: 61 by 122cm., 24 by 48in.
Provenance: Private collection, Manchester
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Lot
No.: 106
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€25,000-35,000
Price Realised:
€0 |
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Seán McSweeney HRHA (b.1935)
WHITE POOLS
Signature: signed and dated [2002] lower right; inscribed and signed again on reverse
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 46 by 61cm., 18 by 24in.
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Lot
No.: 107
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€6,000-8,000
Price Realised:
€0 |
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Barrie Cooke HRHA (b.1931)
YELLOW KNOT IV
Signature: signed, inscribed and dated [1983] lower centre
Medium: watercolour
Dimensions: 37 by 48cm., 14.5 by 19in.
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Lot
No.: 108
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€2,500-3,500
Price Realised:
€2400 |
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Neil Shawcross RHA RUA (b.1940)
FLOWER STUDY
Signature: signed and dated [1990] lower right; original exhibition label on reverse
Medium: watercolour
Dimensions: 76 by 58cm., 30 by 23in.
Provenance: Tom Caldwell Galleries, Dublin and Belfast; Private collection
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Lot
No.: 109
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€5,000-7,000
Price Realised:
€5200 |
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Louis le Brocquy HRHA (b.1916)
JOHN MILINGTON SYNGE
Signature: signed and inscribed lower right
Medium: collotype lithograph on Rives paper (no. 1 from an edition o
Dimensions: 33 by 28cm., 13 by 11in.
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Lot
No.: 110
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€3,000-4,000
Price Realised:
€5000 |
| Printed in 1981 at the Imprimerie Arte, Paris, as part of a series titled Eight Irish Writers. The series was published in a boxed set of eight loose-leaf prints with a preface by Seamus Heaney, in a limited edition of 100 with an extra 25 hors-commerce copies. This is no. 1 from the 25 hors-commerce sets, inscribed “H. C.”. |
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Tony O'Malley HRHA (1913-2003)
YELLOW POND or LOCHAN BUIDHE
Signature: signed with initials lower right; inscribed, dated [1995] and signed again on reverse
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 183 by 122cm., 72 by 48in.
Provenance:
Exhibited: 'Tony O'Malley: Recent Canvases and Good Friday Paintings 1951-1996', Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin, catalogue no. 11 (£IR12,000)
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Lot
No.: 111
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€40,000-60,000
Price Realised:
€0 |
| No. 3324 in the artist's oeuvre. |
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John Kingerlee (b.1936)
GRID COMPOSITION
Signature: signed in monogram and and dated [2003] lower right
Medium: oil on board
Dimensions: 32 by 43cm., 12.5 by 17in.
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Lot
No.: 112
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€20,000-30,000
Price Realised:
€60000 |
| Kingerlee began making grids in December 1998 while on a visit to the hill of Tara in County Meath, seat of the high kings of Ireland. The presence underground of so much buried history and power must have impressed him, not least because it provided him with an archaeological equivalent for the accumulated strata of his oil paintings. By adapting this unusual technique to suit the format of a grid, Kingerlee made the evolution of the painting more apparent and allowed the passage of time itself to be an integral part of the picture. When one looks at a grid painting one is not experiencing a picture in the singular, but rather the evidence of as many as fifty or more, piled one on top of the other.
The grids are made by shaping the pigment into rectangles which are set out in rows, standing proud against neutral backgrounds. The linear matrix, which is imposed at the beginning of the painting process, has its origins in the early Cubist work of Picasso and Braque. Kingerlee particularly likes Braque’s description of his close collaboration with Picasso as being “like two mountaineers roped together”. To create a grid the artist lays his colours on with brushes initially, working from strong bright tints through to more muted shades: “the canvases become more and more subtle as they progress. A lot of white has gone into them and the very bright colours become no more than delicate traces. I really like the subtlety of reduced colour”. In the later stages the method of application switches to a combination of palette knife work and stippling with a decorator’s brush held vertically above the painting, which is laid flat on a workbench: “I am trying to build up a plaque, a raised textured surface. As each coat is added each plaque is more enriched, more and more figurative – landscapes, animals, buildings; sometimes the obvious image isn’t there – sometimes abstract – never a pure accident. The minute it seems a pure accident it’s no longer that but has become a conscious choice”.
In Grid Composition the thirty plaques are endowed with great textural, tonal and chromatic variation. The treatment of the pigment ranges from encrusted, dry and granular (where sand has been added for extra texture) through to creamy, viscous and smooth, where one layer has been allowed to blend with another of a different colour. The plaques with more definite outlines stand proud of the surface, whilst the paler, more subtle ones start to dissolve into each other and into the background. A near musical rhythm is set up across the picture, as we explore the look and feel of each miniature landscape or ‘window’ and the part it plays in the whole. By frustrating our expectations of shape-repetition, the artist slows down our ‘reading’ of the image, making us move visually through this terrain as if it were a real landscape of rocks, turf, sea and sky.
The artist regards the grid cells as miniature pictures, teetering on the brink between nature and abstraction, but always with a sense of being placed in three-dimensional space. It is as if the myriad components of the windswept Beara Peninsula (Kingerlee’s home) were distilled into a series of epiphanies or essences, and then reassembled in pictorial form. In these remarkable grids of Kingerlee’s both the means and the end seem to be without parallel in contemporary painting.
Jonathan Benington,
Bath, August 2005 |
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Alice Maher (b.1956)
THE CITY and RUNNING GIRL, 1994
Signature: signed and inscribed on reverse of canvas
Medium: oil and acrylic on canvas with a cast bronze sculpture
Dimensions: 249 by 130cm., 98 by 51in.
Provenance:
Exhibited: 'Alice Maher: Familiar', Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, 11 January - 18 February 1995 and the Orchard Gallery, Derry, 25 February - 25 March 1995
Literature: Cecile Bourne, ‘Interview with Alice Maher’, pages 22-27 in Familiar, Douglas Hyde, Dublin, 1995, page 25 and illustrated page 20;
Aidan Dunne, ‘Ambiguous Images of Familiarity’, The Tribune Magazine, 8 January 1995;
Aidan Dunne, ‘Visual Art’, The Tribune Magazine, 24 March 1996, page 15, illustrated;
Medb Ruane, ‘Too close to call’ (review of the Glen Dimplex Award nominees at IMMA), The Sunday Times, 31 March 1996, illustrated;
Alice Maher, Necklace of Tongues, limited edition artist’s book, Coracle Publishing, Clonmel, 2001 |
Lot
No.: 113
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€8,000-10,000
Price Realised:
€0 |
| Aidan Dunne described Maher’s ‘Familiar’ exhibition as consisting of a “series of tall, large paintings ... each accompanied by its ‘familiar’, a sculptural object, anything from a couple of inches to a couple of yards in size”. He went on to describe the houses depicted in The City as “simplified representations of all the buildings - and in one case, a tent - that she [Maher] has lived in. They make up a freeform village of indeterminate scale. It could be made of building blocks, or it might be life sized. It’s accompanied by a bronze of a running girl, running, apparently, straight out of the wall”. Maher’s sketches for this work were later reproduced in a limited edition artist’s book, Necklace of Tongues, in which she labels each of the buildings represented with their location: Frankfurt, Dublin, Limerick, Cork, Belfast, Harlem and so on. Speaking about the work in an interview, Maher commented: “I wanted the viewer to feel either tiny and able to get inside and run around in that space, or to feel gigantic and able to pick up and change around the shapes at will. The fact that the pictures [The City and Familiar] are so tall and thin encourages this feeling of vertigo and invites the kind of engagement you refer to, like playing on video-game where you experience ‘getting into’ the space on a flat screen in front of you” (in interview with Cecile Bourne, 1994).
Born in Tipperary, Alice Maher studied at the University of Limerick before attending the Crawford College of Art, Cork, where she studied Fine Art. In 1986 she obtained a Masters in Fine Art from the University of Ulster and later studied painting, at the San Francisco Art Institute. She has held numerous solo exhibitions throughout Ireland and abroad and is represented in most major public collections including the Hugh Lane Gallery, IMMA, OPW and the Arts Council of Ireland. |
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William Crozier HRHA (b.1930)
LANDSCAPE, circa 1960s
Signature: signed lower right
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 60 by 69cm., 23.5 by 27in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 114
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€3,000-4,000
Price Realised:
€3400 |
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Felim Egan (b.1952)
PAINTING WITH DAVID
Signature: signed and dated [1984] on reverse; original exhibition label on reverse
Medium: acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 51 by 51cm., 20 by 20in.
Provenance:
Exhibited: 'Seven Artists: New Work', Oliver Dowling Gallery, Dublin, 25 May - 9 June 1984, catalogue no. 4
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Lot
No.: 115
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€3,000-4,000
Price Realised:
€0 |
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Patrick Scott HRHA (b.1921)
RAINBOW DESIGN I, circa 1979
Signature: signed and inscribed on label on reverse
Medium: woven rug by V’Soske Joyce for Kilkenny Design Workshops (no. 9 from an edition of 20)
Dimensions: 183 by 122cm., 72 by 48in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 116
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€4,000-6,000
Price Realised:
€4000 |
| No. 9 from an edition of 20. |
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Francis Tansey (b.1959)
MONOLITH I
Signature: signed, inscribed and dated [1993] on reverse
Medium: acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 61 by 30cm., 24 by 12in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 117
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€2,000-3,000
Price Realised:
€2900 |
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Martin Gale RHA (b.1949)
CRIME STORY
Signature: signed lower right
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 89 by 89cm., 35.2 by 35.2in.
Provenance:
Exhibited: 'The John Shinnors Selected Exhibition', Lavit Gallery, Cork, 12-25 October 1998; 'Martin Gale: Paintings', RHA, Dublin, 27 September - 24 October 2004 and Ulster Museum, Belfast, 2 December 2004 - 27 March 2005 (listed page 88 of the accompanying catalo
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Lot
No.: 118
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€8,000-10,000
Price Realised:
€0 |
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Trevor Geoghegan (b.1946)
FROST - A TRYPTYCH
Signature: each signed and dated [1986] lower left or lower right and inscribed variously (“8a.m”, “9a.m.” and “10a.m.”) on reverse
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 76 by 76cm., 30 by 30in.
Provenance:
Exhibited: 'An Exhibition of Paintings, From Light to Light, by Trevor Geoghegan', Solomon Gallery, Dublin, 25 February - 12 March 1986, catalogue numbers 7, 8 and 9
Literature: Irish Times, 4 March 1986, first panel illustrated |
Lot
No.: 119
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€6,000-8,000
Price Realised:
€0 |
| Each of the three works measure 30 by 30 inches and are framed separately. |
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Patrick Hennessy RHA (1915-1980)
DIALOGUE OF THE ANGELS or A DIALOGUE OF ANGELS
Signature: signed lower left; original exhibition label with title and artist's reference no. PH139 on reverse
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 122 by 85cm., 48 by 33.5in.
Provenance:
Exhibited: 'Patrick Hennessy R.H.A.', Ritchie Hendriks Gallery, Dublin, [1962], catalogue no. 18 as A Dialogue of Angels (250 gns); Guildhall Galleries, Chicago, circa 1960s
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Lot
No.: 120
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€8,000-10,000
Price Realised:
€10000 |
| Relates to a series of large scale surrealist compositions Hennessy painted, which featured classical statuary. The series included The Guardians of Notre Dame (RHA, 1957), The Angel of the Annunciation (RHA, 1953 and 1958), and The Dance of the Blessed Spirits (RHA, 1959). |
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Patrick Hennessy RHA (1915-1980)
EBBTIDE
Signature: signed lower left; original exhibition label on reverse
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 41 by 64cm., 16 by 25in.
Provenance:
Exhibited: 'Patrick Hennessy', David Hendriks Gallery, Dublin, 9 November - 2 December 1972, catalogue no. 11
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Lot
No.: 121
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€8,000-10,000
Price Realised:
€14000 |
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James le Jeune RHA (1910-1983)
CHILDREN PLAYING ON A BEACH
Signature: signed lower left
Medium: oil on canvas board
Dimensions: 41 by 51cm., 16 by 20in.
Provenance: James Adam Salesrooms, Dublin, September 1985, lot 64; Whence purchased by the present owner
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 122
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€6,000-8,000
Price Realised:
€6200 |
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Tom Nisbet RHA (1919-2001)
DUN LAOGHAIRE HARBOUR, COUNTY DUBLIN
Signature: signed lower right
Medium: oil on board
Dimensions: 39 by 50cm., 15.5 by 19.5in.
Provenance: Purchased directly from the artist by the present owner, circa 1970s
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 123
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€2,000-3,000
Price Realised:
€1900 |
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Ivan Sutton (b.1944)
RESCUE CALL TO DUBLIN BAY - DUN LAOGHAIRE LIFE BOAT
Signature: signed lower right; inscribed and signed again on reverse
Medium: oil on canvas board
Dimensions: 51 by 76cm., 20 by 30in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 124
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€3,000-4,000
Price Realised:
€3000 |
| This work has been reproduced as a Christmas card for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, Dublin. A supply of 100 personalised cards will printed for the puchasers of this lot. |
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Cecil Maguire RHA RUA (b.1930)
MORNING GALLOP, LAYTOWN
Signature: signed and dated [1995] lower right; inscribed on reverse
Medium: oil on board
Dimensions: 46 by 71cm., 18 by 28in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 125
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€8,000-10,000
Price Realised:
€13000 |
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Cecil Maguire RHA RUA (b.1930)
LOUGH MUCK, CONNEMARA
Signature: signed and dated [1984] lower right; inscribed and with original exhibition label on reverse
Medium: oil on panel
Dimensions: 36 by 46cm., 14 by 18in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 126
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€3,000-5,000
Price Realised:
€3000 |
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Frank Egginton RCA (1908-1990)
BALLYNAHINCH RIVER, COUNTY GALWAY
Signature: signed lower left
Medium: watercolour
Dimensions: 53 by 76cm., 21 by 30in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 127
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€4,000-5,000
Price Realised:
€4200 |
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Thomas Ryan PPRHA (b.1929)
THE LIFFEY AT ISLANDBRIDGE WEIR
Signature: signed lower right; inscribed and dated [August 1965] and with original studio label on reverse
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 30 by 50cm., 11.7 by 19.5in.
Provenance: Purchased directly from the artist; Thence by descent
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 128
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€3,000-4,000
Price Realised:
€3300 |
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Cecil Maguire RHA RUA (b.1930)
TWELVE PINS NEAR LETTERDYFE, CONNEMARA
Signature: signed and dated [1968] lower right; inscribed on reverse
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 51 by 61cm., 20 by 24in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 129
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€6,000-8,000
Price Realised:
€7000 |
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Cecil Maguire RHA RUA (b.1930)
LOW WATER, ERVALLAGH
Signature: signed and dated [1988] lower right; inscribed on reverse
Medium: oil on board
Dimensions: 36 by 46cm., 14 by 18in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 130
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€4,000-6,000
Price Realised:
€6600 |
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Andrew Nicholl RHA (1804-1886)
ARCHED ROCK, FANNET, COUNTY DONEGAL
Signature: signed lower left
Medium: watercolour with sgraffito
Dimensions: 25 by 34cm., 10 by 13.5in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 131
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€2,000-3,000
Price Realised:
€0 |
| A view of a natural sea arch off Fanad Head, Co. Donegal. |
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Edwin Hayes RHA (1820-1904)
SCOTCH FISHING BOATS OFF GREAT YARMOUTH
Signature: signed lower left; exhibition labels on reverse
Medium: watercolour over pencil heightened with white
Dimensions: 13 by 22cm., 5.25 by 8.75in.
Provenance: Jorgenson Fine Art, Dublin; Private collection
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 132
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€3,000-4,000
Price Realised:
€0 |
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Alexander Williams RHA (1846-1930)
AN IRISHCABIN
Signature: signed lower right
Medium: oil on board
Dimensions: 17 by 34cm., 6.75 by 13.5in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 133
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€2,000-3,000
Price Realised:
€3400 |
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Andrew Nicholl RHA (1804-1886)
ON KILLINEY HILL
Signature: signed lower left; inscribed on reverse
Medium: watercolour with sgraffito
Dimensions: 47 by 69cm., 18.5 by 27in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 134
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€10,000-12,000
Price Realised:
€0 |
| A view from Killiney Hill, south along Dublin Bay, towards Bray Head and with the Big and Little Sugarloaf mountains visible to the south-west. Along the coast can be seen three Martello towers (erected during the Napoleonic Wars). The small herd of cattle in the foreground has been transposed from earlier studies and appears in at least one other known work: Belfast from Newtownbreda Church (Ulster Museum, Belfast). It would appear this work was executed before 1854 when the Dublin-Kingsotwn railway was extended to Bray, and which features in later views of this area by this and other artists. |
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Stephen Catterson Smith RHA (1806-1872)
LADY PARNELL and LADY DE VESCI (A PAIR)
Signature: extensively inscribed on reverse
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 76 by 61cm., 30 by 24in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 135
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€3,000-4,000
Price Realised:
€0 |
| Selina Elizabeth, Lady de Vesci (later Viscountess de Vesci) of Abbeyleix and Letitia Charlotte, Lady Parnell, were sisters and renowned beauties. Their father, Sir Arthur Brooke Bart. (c.1715-1785), of Colebrooke, was M.P. for Fermanagh; their maternal grandfather the Earl of Clermont. Lady Parnell was in turn great grandmother to the Irish parliamentary leader Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-1891). Both portraits are said to be copies after the pastels by Hugh Douglas Hamilton (1739-1808). Strickland records that by 1913 Hamilton’s portrait of Lady de Vesci was in the possession of Lord Talbot de Malahide. |
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Martin Cregan PRHA PRIA (1788-1870)
PORTRAIT OF MASTER GEORGE ALEXANDER HAMILTON
Signature: with a contemporary inscribed label on reverse stating artist, title and date [1848]
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 76 by 64cm., 30 by 25in.
Provenance:
Exhibited: RHA, Dublin, 1849, catalogue no. 122
Literature: Walter Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists, Vol. 1 , Irish University Press, Shannon, 1969, page 227 |
Lot
No.: 136
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€5,000-7,000
Price Realised:
€0 |
| Born in Co. Meath, Cregan was sponsored by the Stewarts of Killymoon, Co. Tyrone, to study at the Royal Dublin Society’s Drawing School, where he won medals in 1806 and 1807. Such was his aptitude he was sent to London to further his studies and there became the first and only pupil of Sir Martin Archer Shee PRA. In London he befriended Constable and Landseer among others, and began exhibiting at the RA. He returned to Dublin in 1822 and the following year became a founding member of the RHA. He was elected President of the RHA in 1832 and held the post for twenty-three years. During these years Cregan was the leading portrait painter in Ireland and by 1849 held the post of Portrait Painter to the Lord Lieutenant. Strickland described Cregan’s portraits as “marked by feeling and refinement, and a good sense of colour”. Cregan painted several members of the Hamilton family and their relations the Glanvilles. For a list of known works see Strickland, Vol. I, pages 224-233. |
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Daniel Maclise RA (1806-1870)
A CONNEMARA GIRL
Signature: signed with initials lower right
Medium: watercolour with bodycolour over pencil
Dimensions: 43 by 33cm., 17 by 13in.
Provenance: Bell Gallery, Belfast; Private collection, Co. Down
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 137
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€2,000-3,000
Price Realised:
€2300 |
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Seán Keating PRHA HRA HRSA (1889-1977)
HOCHE OF KILLALA
Signature: signed lower right; inscribed on reverse with title and number (123/74)
Medium: charcoal and pastel on grey tinted paper
Dimensions: 51 by 42cm., 20 by 16.5in.
Provenance: Alain Chawner of the Stable Gallery, Ardee, whence purchased by the present owner circa 1970s (original receipt included with lot)
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 138
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€4,000-6,000
Price Realised:
€0 |
| Friend of Wolfe Tone, General Louis Lazare Hoche (1768-1797) was the French commander charged with sailing a fleet to Ireland in 1796 to aid a nationalist rebellion. He never landed due to inclement weather and died of suspected poisoning before he could attempt another invasion. Keating’s title here is perhaps ironic, given that Hoche died before the landing at Killala, Co. Mayo, although the French naval vessel involved in the landing bore his name. |
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Anglo-Irish school, 19th century
A SOLDIER AND WOMAN ON A HILLTOP PASS, WITH CASTLE RUINS ABOVE AND A COASTAL TOWN AND FLEET BEYOND
Signature:
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 30 by 36cm., 12 by 14in.
Provenance:
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Lot
No.: 139
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€1,200-1,500
Price Realised:
€1000 |
| Possibly an early 19th century view near Cove (later Queenstown or Cobh) Co. Cork. |
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William McEvoy RHA (fl.1858-1880)
THE SUGARLOAF MOUNTAIN, GLENGARIFF (COUNTY CORK)
Signature: signed and dated [1862] lower right; inscribed on canvas overlap on reverse; also with the framing label of Combridge’s Fine Arts, Dublin, on reverse
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 30 by 46cm., 12 by 18in.
Provenance:
Exhibited: RHA, Dublin, 1862, catalogue no. 254 (£5-0-0)
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Lot
No.: 140
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€1,200-1,500
Price Realised:
€1200 |
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Joseph William Carey RUA (1859-1937)
GLENGARIFF, COUNTY CORK
Signature: signed and dated [1936] lower left; inscribed with title lower right
Medium: watercolour
Dimensions: 25 by 36cm., 10 by 14in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 141
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€1,200-1,500
Price Realised:
€1200 |
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Harry Kernoff RHA (1900-1974)
EGYPTIAN
Signature: signed and dated [1928] lower left; inscribed lower right
Medium: watercolour over pencil
Dimensions: 23 by 18cm., 9.25 by 7in.
Provenance:
Exhibited: Gorry Gallery, Dublin, 24 November - 7 December 1989, catalogue no. 59
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Lot
No.: 142
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€1,500-2,000
Price Realised:
€1500 |
| One of a series of masquerade ball costumes drawn by Kernoff in 1927-28, twelve of which sold in these rooms on the 26 April 2005 (lot 59, 33000 euro). A further two designs are in the National Gallery of Ireland. |
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Gladys Maccabe HRUA ROI FRSA (b.1918)
RACE DAY and MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE (A PAIR)
Signature: the former signed lower left; the latter signed lower right; both with original inscribed labels on reverse
Medium: watercolours (2)
Dimensions: 51 by 76cm., 20 by 30in.
Provenance: Purchased by the present owner from the WCSI exhibition, 1978 (original bill of sale included with lot)
Exhibited: WCSI, Dublin, 1978, catalogue no.s 72 and 8 respectively
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Lot
No.: 143
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€2,000-3,000
Price Realised:
€6000 |
| The second work measures 19 by 15 inches. |
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Arthur M. Campbell ARUA (1909-1994)
CARAVANS
Signature: signed and dated [9 June 1952] lower right
Medium: pen and ink with black crayon and wash
Dimensions: 23 by 29cm., 9 by 11.5in.
Provenance:
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Lot
No.: 144
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€800-1,000
Price Realised:
€900 |
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Seán Keating PRHA HRA HRSA (1889-1977)
THREE IRISH WORKMEN, circa 1971
Signature: signed lower right
Medium: charcoal heightened with white chalk on paper
Dimensions: 55 by 75cm., 21.5 by 29.5in.
Provenance: Purchased directly from the artist by Dr Bloomfield, 1971, for £50; Thence by descent
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 145
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€6,000-8,000
Price Realised:
€9600 |
| In a letter to the original owner of this work, Keating refers to the three workmen depicted as "three sinister heads", but then goes on to add, "they are not really sinister, but illtreated and oppressed". Copy of the letter supplied with lot. |
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Seán Keating PRHA HRA HRSA (1889-1977)
AN ARAN COUPLE, circa 1971
Signature: signed lower right
Medium: charcoal heightened with white chalk on paper
Dimensions: 55 by 75cm., 21.5 by 29.5in.
Provenance: Purchased directly from the artist by Dr Bloomfield, 1971, for £50; Thence by descent
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 146
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€5,000-7,000
Price Realised:
€11000 |
| The figure on the right is believed to be a portrait of Tiger King, who was renowned on the Aran Islands as a boxer. In a letter to the original owner of this drawing, Keating mentions a drawing of two heads which Dr Bloomfield had seen exhibited at the Oireachtas, and promised to sell him either the original preparatory sketch or a variant thereof. Copy of letter supplied with lot. |
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Mark O'Neill (b.1963)
SIRMOINE STEPS
Signature: signed and dated [2004] lower right; original exhibition label on reverse
Medium: oil on board
Dimensions: 20 by 19cm., 8 by 7.5in.
Provenance:
Exhibited: 'Chapters: Mark O'Neill', Frederick Gallery, Dublin, 16-26 May 2004, catalogue no. 15
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Lot
No.: 147
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€2,500-3,500
Price Realised:
€3000 |
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Wendy F. Walsh (b.1915)
DAFFODILS
Signature: signed and dated [2000] lower right
Medium: watercolour over pencil
Dimensions: 53 by 38cm., 21 by 15in.
Provenance: Purchased directly from the artist by the present owner.
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 148
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€2,000-3,000
Price Realised:
€2500 |
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Fergus O'Ryan RHA ANCA (1911-1989)
ST GEORGE'S CHURCH, TEMPLE STREET, DUBLIN
Signature: signed lower right
Medium: watercolour
Dimensions: 25 by 36cm., 10 by 14in.
Provenance:
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Lot
No.: 149
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€800-1,200
Price Realised:
€1700 |
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Tony O'Malley HRHA (1913-2003)
AUTUMN ON THE NORE NEAR THOMASTOWN, COUNTY KILKENNY
Signature: signed with initials lower right; inscribed lower left
Medium: pen and blue ink with wash on paper
Dimensions: 22 by 34cm., 8.5 by 13.5in.
Provenance:
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Lot
No.: 150
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€3,000-4,000
Price Realised:
€4200 |
| Painted circa 1952 when the artist was living in New Ross, Co. Wexford. |
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Tony O'Malley HRHA (1913-2003)
NORMAN RUINS AT BURNCHURCH
Signature: signed with initials and inscribed lower right
Medium: pen and ink with wash heightened with white on paper
Dimensions: 25 by 36cm., 10 by 14in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 151
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€3,000-4,000
Price Realised:
€3000 |
| Burnchurch is near Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford. Painted circa 1952 when the artist was living in New Ross, Co. Wexford. |
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Mark O'Neill (B.1963)
COURS SALEYA COLLECTION
Signature: signed and dated [2004] lower right
Medium: oil on board
Dimensions: 56 by 71cm., 22 by 28in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 152
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€6,000-8,000
Price Realised:
€6000 |
| The Cours Saleya is an outdoor market in Nice, southern France. |
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Mark O'Neill (b.1963)
HENS IN A FIELD
Signature: signed and dated [2000] lower left
Medium: oil on board
Dimensions: 36 by 36cm., 14 by 14in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 153
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€3,000-4,000
Price Realised:
€4200 |
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Mark O'Neill (b.1963)
SUMMER LEGACY
Signature: signed and dated [1990] lower left; exhibition label on reverse
Medium: acrylic on board
Dimensions: 36 by 61cm., 14 by 24in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 154
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€2,000-3,000
Price Realised:
€3200 |
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Stuart Morle (b.1960)
CYPRESS TREES, URBINO
Signature: signed lower right
Medium: oil on board
Dimensions: 46 by 61cm., 18 by 24in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 155
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€2,000-3,000
Price Realised:
€2600 |
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Niccolo d'Ardia Carracciolo RHA (1941-1989)
A TUSCAN TERRACE
Signature: signed lower left
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 30 by 41cm., 12 by 16in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 156
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€4,000-6,000
Price Realised:
€5000 |
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Robert T. Killen RUA
OLIVE GROVE, SAN PASSIGNANO
Signature: signed lower right; inscribed label on reverse
Medium: oil on canvas laid on board
Dimensions: 91 by 122cm., 36 by 48in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 157
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€2,000-3,000
Price Realised:
€3200 |
| Vice-President of the Royal Ulster Academy, R. T. Killen is a self-taught painter who has been exhibiting since the late 1970s in group shows such as the RUA, RHA, and the ROI. He has also had several solo shows at the Cavehill Gallery, Belfast, and two-person exhibitions at the Kerlin Gallery and One Oxford Street, Belfast. His work in represented in the collections of Ulster Television, the Ulster Bank, and the Boyle Civic Collection. |
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Brian Ballard RUA (b.1943)
IRISES AND LEMONS
Signature: signed and dated [2000] lower left
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 61 by 76cm., 24 by 30in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 158
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€5,000-7,000
Price Realised:
€7200 |
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Brian Ballard RUA (b.1943)
NERINE IN BOTTLE
Signature: signed and dated [2004] lower left; inscribed on reverse
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 41 by 51cm., 16 by 20in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 159
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€4,000-5,000
Price Realised:
€4800 |
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Arthur K. Maderson (b.1942)
STUDY, NIGHT MARKET, LE VIGNAN, MIDI-FRANCE
Signature: signed lower left; inscribed and signed again on reverse
Medium: oil on board
Dimensions: 81 by 119cm., 32 by 47in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 160
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€4,000-5,000
Price Realised:
€4400 |
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Fergus O'Ryan RHA ANCA (1911-1989)
LE PLACE PASTEUR, ST MAXIME, VAR, FRANCE
Signature: signed lower right; inscribed with title on reverse
Medium: oil on board
Dimensions: 51 by 66cm., 20 by 26in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 161
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€3,000-4,000
Price Realised:
€0 |
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Markey Robinson (1918-1999)
THE FRUIT SELLERS
Signature: signed lower left
Medium: gouache on board
Dimensions: 76 by 99cm., 30 by 39in.
Provenance: Apollo Gallery, Dublin; Private collection
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 162
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€10,000-12,000
Price Realised:
€0 |
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Gladys Maccabe HRUA ROI FRSA (b.1918)
STILL LIFE WITH CRYSANTHEMUMS, FRUIT AND PALETTE
Signature: signed lower left
Medium: oil on board
Dimensions: 61 by 76cm., 24 by 30in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 163
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€4,000-5,000
Price Realised:
€4000 |
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Markey Robinson (1918-1999)
STILL LIFE WITH FLOWERS AND PEARS
Signature: signed lower left
Medium: gouache on board
Dimensions: 71 by 47cm., 28 by 18.5in.
Provenance: Oriel Gallery, Dublin; Private collection
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 164
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€5,000-7,000
Price Realised:
€0 |
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Markey Robinson (1918-1999)
STILL LIFE WITH FRUIT AND FLOWERS
Signature: signed lower left
Medium: gouache on board
Dimensions: 117 by 84cm., 46 by 33in.
Provenance:
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Lot
No.: 165
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€12,000-15,000
Price Realised:
€0 |
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Markey Robinson (1918-1999)
BALLET DANCERS
Signature: signed lower left
Medium: gouache on board
Dimensions: 53 by 37cm., 21 by 14.5in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 166
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€4,000-6,000
Price Realised:
€0 |
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Markey Robinson (1918-1999)
WHITE CLOWN and TWO SHAWLIES (A PAIR)
Signature: each signed lower left
Medium: gouache on board
Dimensions: 51 by 32cm., 20 by 12.5in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 167
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€5,000-7,000
Price Realised:
€5000 |
| Second work measures 19.5 by 11.5 inches. |
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Markey Robinson (1918-1999)
NICE and SEVILLE (A PAIR)
Signature: signed lower left
Medium: oil on board
Dimensions: 18 by 71cm., 7 by 28in.
Provenance: Tom Caldwell Galleries, Belfast; Private collection
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 168
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€5,000-7,000
Price Realised:
€6000 |
| Both works are of the same dimensions and framed separately. |
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Patrick Hickey HRHA (1927-1998)
LANDSCAPE WITH BOAT
Signature: with a Dawson Gallery framing label on reverse
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 64 by 79cm., 25 by 31in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 169
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€2,000-3,000
Price Realised:
€3600 |
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Peter Collis RHA (b.1929)
THE FARM, circa 1994
Signature: signed lower right
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 61 by 61cm., 24 by 24in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 170
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€6,000-8,000
Price Realised:
€0 |
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Markey Robinson (1918-1999)
VILLAGE BY MOONLIGHT
Signature:
Medium: oil on panel
Dimensions: 24 by 119cm., 9.5 by 47in.
Provenance:
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Lot
No.: 171
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€15,000-18,000
Price Realised:
€14500 |
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George Campbell RHA (1917-1979)
NIGHT PLACE
Signature: signed and dated [1973] lower left; original exhibition label on reverse
Medium: crayon, ink and collage on board
Dimensions: 28 by 47cm., 11 by 18.5in.
Provenance: David Hendriks Gallery, Dublin; Whence purchased by Dr. Bewley, April 1973; Private collection
Exhibited: 'George Campbell RHA', David Hendriks Gallery, Dublin, April - May 1973, catalogue no. 23
Literature: |
Lot
No.: 172
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€1,800-2,200
Price Realised:
€1800 |
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Michael O'Dea RHA (b.1958)
STOP HIM
Signature: signed and dated [1995] lower right; original exhibition label on reverse
Medium: acrylic and Indian ink on paper
Dimensions: 76 by 108cm., 30 by 42.5in.
Provenance: Purchased directly from the artist by the present owner
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 173
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€2,000-3,000
Price Realised:
€2600 |
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John Kingerlee (b.1936)
THE BREAKWATER
Signature: signed in monogram and dated [1989] lower right; exhibition label on reverse
Medium: acrylic on board
Dimensions: 30 by 51cm., 12 by 20in.
Provenance: Tom Caldwell Galleries; Whence purchased by the current owner
Exhibited: 'John Kingerlee', Tom Caldwell Galleries, Dublin, 15 March - 7 April 1990, catalogue no. 19
Literature: |
Lot
No.: 174
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€1,500-2,000
Price Realised:
€2200 |
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Louis le Brocquy HRHA (b.1916)
ENCLOSED FIELD, BEARA
Signature: signed, inscribed and dated [1988] lower left
Medium: lithograph (no. 13 from an edition of 25)
Dimensions: 25 by 30cm., 10 by 12in.
Provenance:
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Lot
No.: 175
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€2,000-3,000
Price Realised:
€3800 |
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Charles Brady HRHA (1926-1997)
THE MOY RIVER, BALLINA
Signature: signed lower left; inscribed, dated [April 1963] and signed again on reverse
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 46 by 43cm., 18 by 17in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 176
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€4,000-6,000
Price Realised:
€4800 |
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Comhgall Casey (b.1976)
CAULIFLOWER
Signature: signed and dated [2003] lower right; gallery label on reverse
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 53 by 46cm., 21 by 18in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 177
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€2,000-3,000
Price Realised:
€2000 |
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Barrie Cooke HRHA (b.1931)
APPLE CORES
Signature: each signed and dated [1958] lower right
Medium: pencil on paper
Dimensions: 28 by 74cm., 11 by 29in.
Provenance: Sir Basil Goulding; Private collection, Dublin
Exhibited: '2 Deeply: 100 Paintings by Barrie Cooke and Camille Souter', The Carroll Building, Grand Parade, Dublin, August 1981, in aid of the Central Remedial Clinic
Literature: |
Lot
No.: 178
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€1,000-1,500
Price Realised:
€1300 |
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Kenneth Webb RWA FRSA RUA (b.1927)
THE TWELVE PINS, CONNEMARA, IN WINTER
Signature: signed lower left
Medium: oil on board
Dimensions: 51 by 71cm., 20 by 28in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 179
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€6,000-8,000
Price Realised:
€0 |
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Kenneth Webb RWA FRSA RUA (b.1927)
HORN HEAD AND DOOEY VILLAGE, ATLANTIC DRIVE, COUNTY DONEGAL
Signature: signed lower right; inscribed with title and original price (75gns) on stretcher on reverse
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 41 by 102cm., 16 by 40in.
Provenance: John Magee, Belfast; Private collection
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 180
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€5,000-7,000
Price Realised:
€5000 |
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Kenneth Webb RWA FRSA RUA (b.1927)
WORKING HORSES
Signature: signed lower left
Medium: watercolour and gouache on artist's board
Dimensions: 27 by 37cm., 10.5 by 14.5in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 181
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€1,500-1,800
Price Realised:
€0 |
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Kenneth Webb RWA FRSA RUA (b.1927)
UP THE GARDEN PATH (COTTAGE GARDEN)
Signature: signed lower left; inscribed studio label on reverse
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 61 by 51cm., 24 by 20in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 182
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€7,000-9,000
Price Realised:
€14000 |
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Anthony Robert Klitz (1917-2000)
THE LIFFEY, DUBLIN
Signature: signed lower right; inscribed and dated [1977] on reverse
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 51 by 102cm., 20 by 40in.
Provenance:
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Lot
No.: 183
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€3,000-4,000
Price Realised:
€2800 |
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Liam Treacy (1934-2004)
SANDYMOUNT
Signature: signed lower right; original studio label inscribed with title and date [1985] on reverse
Medium: oil on canvas laid on board
Dimensions: 30 by 41cm., 12 by 16in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 184
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€2,000-3,000
Price Realised:
€3400 |
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Rowland Hill ARUA (1915-1979)
ATLANTIC DRIVE, DONEGAL COAST
Signature: signed lower right
Medium: oil on board
Dimensions: 36 by 71cm., 14 by 28in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 185
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€2,000-3,000
Price Realised:
€0 |
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Norman J. McCaig (1929-2001)
THE TWELVE PINS, CONNEMARA
Signature: signed lower left
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 76 by 102cm., 30 by 40in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 186
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€3,500-4,500
Price Realised:
€4800 |
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Norman J. McCaig (1929-2001)
DOLLYMOUNT STRAND
Signature: signed lower left; inscribed on reverse
Medium: oil on canvas board
Dimensions: 46 by 61cm., 18 by 24in.
Provenance:
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Lot
No.: 187
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€2,000-3,000
Price Realised:
€4600 |
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Charles J. McAuley RUA ARSA (1910-1999)
COUNTY ANTRIM BAY
Signature: signed lower left; remains of label inscribed with date [August 1945] on reverse
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 51 by 61cm., 20 by 24in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 188
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€3,500-4,500
Price Realised:
€3800 |
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Elizabeth Brophy
THE HAIRDRESSER
Signature: signed lower left; inscribed label on reverse
Medium: oil on board
Dimensions: 41 by 51cm., 16 by 20in.
Provenance: Leinster Gallery, Dublin; Private collection
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 189
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€3,000-4,000
Price Realised:
€3600 |
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Gladys Maccabe HRUA ROI FRSA (b.1918)
AT THE RACES
Signature: signed lower right
Medium: oil on board
Dimensions: 25 by 34cm., 10 by 13.5in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 190
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€3,000-4,000
Price Realised:
€4400 |
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Gladys Maccabe HRUA ROI FRSA (b.1918)
HOBBY HORSES
Signature: signed lower right; inscribed on reverse
Medium: oil on board
Dimensions: 41 by 51cm., 16 by 20in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 191
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€3,000-4,000
Price Realised:
€4600 |
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Kenneth Webb RWA FRSA RUA (b.1927)
ELEPHANTS AT KILIMANJARO
Signature: signed lower right; inscribed on reverse
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 41 by 102cm., 16 by 40in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
Literature: Painted in 1968, this work is illustrated in Josephine Walpole, Kenneth Webb: A Life in Colour, Antique Collectors Club, 2003, page 24. |
Lot
No.: 192
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€4,000-5,000
Price Realised:
€5000 |
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Arthur K. Maderson (b.1942)
THE STUDIO BY MOONLIGHT
Signature: signed lower right; signed again and dated [18 May 1986] on reverse; also with typed exhibition label on reverse
Medium: oil on board
Dimensions: 61 by 48cm., 24 by 19in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
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Lot
No.: 193
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€3,000-4,000
Price Realised:
€3000 |
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Kenneth Webb RWA FRSA RUA (b.1927)
FISHING BOATS IN A HARBOUR
Signature: signed and dated [1962] lower left
Medium: watercolour and gouache on paper
Dimensions: 56 by 38cm., 22 by 15in.
Provenance:
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Lot
No.: 194
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€3,000-4,000
Price Realised:
€0 |
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Kevin Geary (b.1952)
STRAVINSKY'S 'THE RITE OF SPRING'
Signature: signed on reverse
Medium: acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 102 by 102cm., 40 by 40in.
Provenance:
Exhibited: 'Abstracts and Portraits', Cathedral Centre for the Arts, Phoenix, Arizona, 2003
Literature: |
Lot
No.: 195
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€2,000-3,000
Price Realised:
€2400 |
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John Minihan (b.1946)
SAMUEL BECKETT, LE PETIT CAFÉ, BOULEVARD ST JACQUE
Signature: signed, inscribed and dated [December 1985] in lower margin
Medium: silver gelatine print (no. 2 from an edition of 6)
Dimensions: 51 by 41cm., 20 by 16in.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
Literature: John Minihan, Photographs of Francis Bacon, Samuel Beckett, William S. Burroughs, October Gallery, London, 1990, illustrated page 20;
André Bernold, L’amitié de Beckett 1979-1989, Hermann Éditeurs des Sciences et des Arts, Paris, 1992, illustrated page 10;
John Minihan, Samuel Beckett, with an introduction by Aidan Higgins, Secker and Warburg, London, 1996, pages 23-24 and 92, also illustrated on front cover;
Aidan Higgins and John Minihan, Samuel Beckett, Anatolia Editions, Paris, 1996, illustrated page 50 |
Lot
No.: 196
Auction Date:
20 September 2005
Published Estimate:
€800-1,000
Price Realised:
€6400 |
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