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| Lot: 1 |
| George Campbell, RHA (1917-1979) |
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| SAND DUNES AND SEA WITH SAILBOATS ON HORIZON |
| signed lower right |
| gouache and wax crayon on board |
| 18 by 24cm., 7.25 by 9.5in. |
| Provenance: A gift from the artist to his friend William Baird; Thence by descent to the present owner |
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| Estimate: € 1,500-2,000 |
Price Realised: € 1500 |
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| Date of Sale: 16 September 2003 |
| Lot: 2 |
| Gerard Dillon, (1916-1971) |
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| LAGAN VALLEY |
| signed lower left; original inscribed Watercolour Society label on reverse |
| watercolour |
| 23 by 29cm., 9 by 11.5in. |
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| Exhibited: WCSI, 1943, catalogue no. 179 (£2-2-0) |
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| Estimate: € 1,500-2,000 |
Price Realised: € 2400 |
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| Date of Sale: 16 September 2003 |
| Lot: 3 |
| Hilda Roberts, HRHA (1901-1982) |
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| ROUNDSTONE, CONNEMARA |
| signed lower right; inscribed exhibition label on reverse |
| watercolour and gouache |
| 28 by 38cm., 11 by 15in. |
| Provenance: Collection of Ciarán MacGonigal |
| Exhibited: ‘Hilda Roberts HRHA: Paintings Drawings & Sculpture from early 1920s – 1978’, Taylor Galleries, Dublin, 25 May - 9 June 1979, catalogue no. 39 |
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| Notes:Inscribed on reverse: "View from Gorteen Graveyard towards Ellistrin [sic] with Toombeola beyond - site [of] Bulmer Hobson's grave & Maurice MacGonigal & his wife Aida". |
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| Estimate: € 1,800-2,200 |
Price Realised: € 0 |
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| Date of Sale: 16 September 2003 |
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| Lot: 4 |
| Tony O'Malley, (1913-2003) |
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| TABLE TOP STILL LIFE WITH HOUSE PLANT |
| signed lower right |
| gouache on board |
| 33 by 41cm., 13 by 16in. |
| Provenance: Brigid Lalor, New Ross, Co. Wexford; Thence by descent |
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| Notes:Painted c.1956-1960, when the artist was transferred to the New Ross branch of the Munster and Leinster Bank. Whilst there, O’Malley befriended Gabriel and Brigid Lalor who ran the ‘Penguin’ fish and chip shop in Charles Street. The Lalors acquired a number of O’Malley’s works and supplied much of the information relating to O’Malley’s Wexford period for the 1996 monograph on the artist, edited by Brian Lynch. |
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| Estimate: € 2,000-3,000 |
Price Realised: € 7500 |
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| Date of Sale: 16 September 2003 |
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| Lot: 5 |
| Noel Sheridan, (b.1936) |
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| TABLE TOP STILL LIFE WITH FRUIT AND BLUE BOTTLE |
| signed lower right |
| oil on canvas |
| 58 by 85cm., 23 by 33.5in. |
| Provenance: Taylor Galleries, Dublin; Collection of Ciarán MacGonigal |
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| Estimate: € 2,000-3,000 |
Price Realised: € 1800 |
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| Date of Sale: 16 September 2003 |
| Lot: 6 |
| Piet Sluis, (b.1929) |
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| TABLE TOP STILL LIFE |
| signed lower left |
| oil on canvas |
| 46 by 51cm., 18 by 20in. |
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| Estimate: € 2,000-3,000 |
Price Realised: € 0 |
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| Date of Sale: 16 September 2003 |
| Lot: 7 |
| George Campbell, RHA (1917-1979) |
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| FISHERMEN AT REST, PALO, SPAIN |
| signed and inscribed "Palo" lower right |
| watercolour, chalk, pen and ink on paper |
| 22 by 30cm., 8.5 by 12in. |
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| Estimate: € 2,000-3,000 |
Price Realised: € 3600 |
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| Date of Sale: 16 September 2003 |
| Lot: 8 |
| Basil Ivan Rákóczi, (1908-1979) |
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| ASLEEP IN A FISH |
| signed and dated [1972] lower left; inscribed on reverse |
| pen and ink with aquarelle and coloured chalk on paper |
| 27 by 35cm., 10.5 by 13.7in. |
| Provenance: Private collection, France |
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| Notes:No. 10.419 in the artist's oeuvre. |
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| Estimate: € 1,000-1,500 |
Price Realised: € 1800 |
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| Date of Sale: 16 September 2003 |
| Lot: 9 |
| George Campbell, RHA (1917-1979) |
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| MAN AND WOMAN IN A WOODED LANDSCAPE |
| authenticated by the artist's brother Arthur Campbell ARUA on reverse |
| pastel and crayon on board |
| 41 by 30cm., 16 by 12in. |
| Provenance: A gift from the artist to his friend William Baird; Thence by descent to the present owner |
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| Estimate: € 1,200-1,500 |
Price Realised: € 1700 |
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| Date of Sale: 16 September 2003 |
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| Lot: 10 |
| John Langtry Lynas, RUA (1879-1956) |
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| HEAD OF A BOY and SELF PORTRAIT AT THE AGE OF 25 YEARS |
| the former signed, inscribed and dated [1933] on reverse; the latter dated [1904] lower right and signed and inscribed on reverse |
| painted terracotta relief and a pen and ink drawing |
| 13 by 11cm., 5 by 4.5in. |
| Provenance: Both works presented by the artist to the Northern Irish MP, Mrs Irene Calvert, circa 1953 (see also Lots 28 and 191) |
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| Notes:The drawing measures 8.75 x 5.5 inches and bears three labels: a Rodman’s (Belfast) framing label, a label inscribed in another hand mistakenly dating the work to 1909, and a typed label, reading: “Collected From: Miss R. Praeger, Rock Cottage, Craigavad, Holywood” (Sophia Rosamund Praeger - well known Ulster sculptor and illustrator). The terracotta relief is signed and inscribed by the artist on reverse: “Best Wishes To Mr & Mrs J Herbert Roland [?]/ Christmas 1934". Langtry Lynas was a Belfast portrait painter and sculptor whose work is well represented in the Ulster Museum. See Snoddy, pp. 354-355. |
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| Estimate: € 1,200-1,500 |
Price Realised: € 0 |
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| Date of Sale: 16 September 2003 |
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| Lot: 11 |
| Ronald Ossory Dunlop, RA RBA NEAC (1894-1973) |
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| A SWISS VILLAGE SCENE |
| signed lower left |
| oil on panel |
| 41 by 30cm., 16 by 12in. |
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| Estimate: € 1,800-2,200 |
Price Realised: € 0 |
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| Date of Sale: 16 September 2003 |
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| Lot: 12 |
| Mary Swanzy, HRHA (1882-1978) |
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| FIGURES AT A MARKET, CZECHOSLOVAKIA |
| signed lower right |
| oil on canvas |
| 30 by 41cm., 12 by 16in. |
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| Notes:One of the most original of Ireland’s early modern artists, Mary Swanzy was strongly influenced by French modernism, particularly by Cézanne’s experiments with structure and form and by the bold colours of the Fauves. She also worked early on as a poster designer and illustrator, which gave her an understanding of the visual potency of the drawn line. The present work dates to shortly after World War One, when the artist visited her sister St Clair Swanzy, who was doing war relief work in Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. A number of paintings and sketches resulted from this trip and Eastern European landscapes featured in Swanzy’s exhibition at the Mills’ Hall, Dublin, in March 1919. In these paintings, Swanzy adopted a technique of “drawing” with oil paint, dragging a lightly loaded brush over small sheets of canvas, as if it were a stick of charcoal or a pencil. In the present case the canvas is unstretched – possibly as this provided a flat, transportable surface analogous to a sheet of paper (it may alternatively have been cut from the stretcher at a later date). A very similar composition, A Czechoslovakian Market Scene, was exhibited at Pym’s Gallery, London in Autumn 1989 and May 1998, whilst another work of the same period, Czechoslovakian Street Scene, formerly in the collection of Dr Eileen MacCarvill (Mainie Jellett’s biographer), appeared for sale at De Vere’s in December 1991. |
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| Estimate: € 7,000-9,000 |
Price Realised: € 10000 |
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| Date of Sale: 16 September 2003 |
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| Lot: 13 |
| Norman Garstin, (1847-1926) |
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| YOUNG BOY STANDING AT THE WATER'S EDGE |
| signed lower right |
| watercolour |
| 24 by 18cm., 9.5 by 7in. |
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| Estimate: € 1,800-2,200 |
Price Realised: € 2800 |
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| Date of Sale: 16 September 2003 |
| Lot: 14 |
| William Percy French, (1854-1920) |
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| BOGLAND STREAM |
| signed lower left |
| watercolour |
| 17 by 25cm., 6.75 by 9.75in. |
| Provenance: Presented by the artist to the present owner, now a centenarian, when she was at the Slieve Donard Hotel, circa 1915-1920. |
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| Estimate: € 3,000-4,000 |
Price Realised: € 3800 |
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| Date of Sale: 16 September 2003 |
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| Lot: 15 |
| Alethea Garstin, (1894-1978) |
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| PASTORAL SCENE WITH CATTLE BEFORE A CHURCH and CATTLE GRAZING (A PAIR) |
| signed lower left and lower right respectively |
| watercolour |
| 28 by 38cm., 11 by 15in. |
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| Notes:Daughter of the Limerick artist Norman Garstin (1847-1926), Alethea painted from childhood and had her first picture hung at the Royal Academy when she was a mere eighteen years of age. She travelled the world in search of artistic subject matter, often accompanied by either her father or by Dod Proctor. She is best remembered for her contribution to the Newlyn School of painting. A retrospective exhibition was held in Dublin at the National Gallery in 1978, the year of her death, while more recently the Molesworth Gallery exhibited works from her studio. |
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| Estimate: € 1,200-1,500 |
Price Realised: € 1400 |
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| Date of Sale: 16 September 2003 |
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| Lot: 16 |
| George Russell, "AE" (1867-1935) |
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| SANDCASTLES |
| signed with monogram lower right |
| oil on canvas |
| 41 by 53cm., 16 by 21in. |
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| Notes:This painting is most likely to have been inspired and painted at Marble Hill in Co. Donegal. Æ spent many of his summer holidays from about 1904 until his last visit in 1934 in the area, either as a guest of the Law family - whom he knew well - or as a paying guest in cottages nearby. The ‘river in the sand’ which appears in many of his Donegal paintings, is a feature of Marble Hill strand, although what was once a considerable flow of water is now little more than a trickle. Æ dedicated a copy of his book Enchantment and Other Poems to a friend with one of his characteristic drawings and the following words: “…this is the ‘fawn-coloured shore’ where many of my verses were written. It is at Marble Hill strand, Dunfanaghy and it is my Earthly Paradise”. Enchantment is the title of a poem Æ wrote about Marble Hill. In this painting, Æ has depicted a fawn coloured shore where three children are just completing an elaborate sand castle. The girl on the right holds a flag high in the air with both hands – possibly about to place the flag in triumph on the top of the sandcastle. Or has she, perhaps, mischievously whisked the flag from the top of the castle? Æ loved to paint children at play and is well known to have included in many of his paintings the children of Hugh Law, Nationalist MP for West Donegal and his artist wife, Lota. Æ often painted with Lota Law during his visits to Donegal. Anecdotes tell of Æ holding informal exhibitions at the end of his holidays in Donegal and inviting friends and local people to look at, and purchase, his paintings to supplement his income.
Diana Beale, August 2003
(who is preparing a book on Æ as a painter) |
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| Estimate: € 10,000-15,000 |
Price Realised: € 0 |
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| Date of Sale: 16 September 2003 |
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| Lot: 17 |
| Dorothy Blackham, (1896-1975) |
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| NEIFIN MOUNTAIN FROM ACHILL |
| signed lower left; original inscribed label on reverse |
| oil on masonite board |
| 46 by 56cm., 18 by 22in. |
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| Notes:The label on reverse gives the artist’s address as 53 Moat Street, Donaghadee. Blackham lived here from 1964 until her death in 1975, shortly after which both the Queen’s University, Belfast and the Neptune Gallery, Dublin, held retrospective exhibitions of her work. See Snoddy, pp. 35-36. |
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| Estimate: € 2,000-3,000 |
Price Realised: € 0 |
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| Date of Sale: 16 September 2003 |
| Lot: 18 |
| Estella Francis Solomons, HRHA (1882-1968) |
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| DUBLIN BAY |
| signed and inscribed with title and studio address on reverse |
| oil on panel |
| 30 by 38cm., 12 by 15in. |
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| Estimate: € 2,000-3,000 |
Price Realised: € 4200 |
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| Date of Sale: 16 September 2003 |
| Lot: 19 |
| Anne King-Harman, (1919-1979) |
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| WESTPORT HARBOUR, COUNTY MAYO |
| signed lower left, inscribed on reverse |
| gouache |
| 28 by 51cm., 11 by 20in. |
| Provenance: Family of the artist; by descent |
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| Estimate: € 1,000-1,200 |
Price Realised: € 1000 |
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| Date of Sale: 16 September 2003 |
| Lot: 20 |
| Letitia Marion Hamilton, RHA |
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| COTTAGES ON ACHILL ISLAND |
| signed with initials lower right; original inscribed label on reverse |
| oil on canvas |
| 42 by 47cm., 16.5 by 18.5in. |
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| Estimate: € 15,000-18,000 |
Price Realised: € 16000 |
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| Date of Sale: 16 September 2003 |
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