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| Lot: 1 |
| James MacIntyre, RUA (b.1926) |
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| POTATO SOWERS |
| signed lower right; artist's label on reverse |
| pen and ink |
| 23 by 28cm., 9 by 11in. |
| Provenance: Fine Irish Pictures, Christie's Scotland, Belfast Castle, 28 October 1988, lot 226; McKee collection |
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| Estimate: € 300-400 |
Price Realised: € 90 |
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| Date of Sale: 6 December 2008 |
| Lot: 2 |
| Basil Ivan Rakoczi, (1908-1979) |
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| CHILD ON A BIKE WITH A BIRD |
| signed lower right; gallery label on reverse |
| watercolour |
| 20 by 27cm., 8 by 10.5in. |
| Provenance: Collection of Lucy Carrington Wertheim; Private collection; Duncan Campbell, London; Private collection; Dickon Hall Fine Art, Belfast; McKee collection |
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| Notes:This was from the Lucy Wertheim estate and came to the previous owner from Duncan Campbell in London. With a letter confirming provenance from Dickon Hall, Belfast. |
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| Estimate: € 400-500 |
Price Realised: € 550 |
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| Date of Sale: 6 December 2008 |
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| Lot: 3 |
| John Turner, HRUA (b.1916) |
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| QUEUING UP, 1943 |
| signed lower right; inscribed and dated lower centre; numberes lower left |
| linocut (no. 26 from an edition of 50) |
| 27 by 28cm., 10.5 by 11in. |
| Provenance: Gift from the artist to Dr McKee, c.2000 |
| Exhibited: John Turner retrospective exhibition, Belfast College of Arts, 2002 |
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| Notes:This represents the rationing queues at a butchers in north Belfast during the war years. |
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| Estimate: € 100-150 |
Price Realised: € 110 |
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| Date of Sale: 6 December 2008 |
| Lot: 4 |
| Eugene Riboulet, RUA (1883-1972) |
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| STUDY FOR TEXTILES |
| studio label on reverse |
| watercolour, gouache, pen and ink |
| 29 by 29cm., 11.5 by 11.5in. |
| Provenance: Studio sale, Ross's, Belfast, 28 April 1999; Whence purchased by Dr McKee |
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| Estimate: € 200-300 |
Price Realised: € 50 |
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| Date of Sale: 6 December 2008 |
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| Lot: 5 |
| Robert Gordon Sellar, (b.1920) |
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| PORTBRADDON, COUNTY ANTRIM |
| signed lower right; titled lower left |
| linocut |
| 30 by 41cm., 12 by 16in. |
| Provenance: Bell Gallery, Belfast; Whence purchased in 1989 by Dr McKee |
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| Notes:This view of the beautiful tiny clachan of Portbrtadden Co. Antrim dates from the early 1960s. A precipitous road leads down to the fishermen's cottage where the salmon nets dry at the edge of Whitepark Bay. Sellar was a teacher in the nearby school and would have known this coast well. The cottage in this scene is now the property of the National Trust. Robert Sellar was born in Scotland. He moved to Northern Ireland as a child and studied at Belfast College of Art. He taught in schools in Derry and Antrim, and for many years was adviser in art education to the North-Eastern Education Board before retiring in 1984. He was commissioned to produce designs for the stained glass windows at Castlerock Presbyterian Church in Northern Ireland and also created designs for postage stamps and commemorative postmarks for both the Irish and British postal services. |
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| Estimate: € 80-120 |
Price Realised: € 280 |
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| Date of Sale: 6 December 2008 |
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| Lot: 6 |
| Daniel O'Neill, (1920-1974) |
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| FIGURE STUDIES (A PAIR) |
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| pen and ink |
| 20 by 13cm., 8 by 5in. |
| Provenance: The artist's family by descent; Sheilagh Deacon; Ross's, Belfast, c.1993; Private collection; Dickon Hall Fine Art, Belfast, 1999; Private collection |
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| Notes:Sheelagh Deacon The artist's family (sister and brother in law) |
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| Estimate: € 600-800 |
Price Realised: € 570 |
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| Date of Sale: 6 December 2008 |
| Lot: 7 |
| Gerard Dillon, (1916-1971) |
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| ANGEL |
| signed in initials lower left |
| linocut |
| 18 by 13cm., 7 by 5in. |
| Provenance: Phil Rafferty (1919-1996); Her sale, Ross's, Belfast, 7 October 1998, lot 92; Whence purchased by Dr McKee |
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| Notes:A Christmas card to the artist Phil Rafferty c.1970. Accompanied by a letter of provenance. |
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| Estimate: € 600-800 |
Price Realised: € 500 |
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| Date of Sale: 6 December 2008 |
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| Lot: 8 |
| Jack Pakenham, RUA (b.1938) |
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| MOURNE LANDSCAPE, 1964 |
| signed and dated lower right |
| oil on board |
| 25 by 23cm., 10 by 9in. |
| Provenance: Bell Gallery, Belfast; McKee collection |
| Exhibited: Bell Gallery, Belfast, 9 February, 1989 |
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| Notes:This charming small painting depicts a view of Slieve Martin from Omeath, with complex layering of the paint giving depth and character. The artist wrote of this work: “the painting was one of a series done in 1965 when I turned my attention to landscape, trying to convey the texture, stratification and erosion of an area I had [previously] lived in called the Isle of Purbeck, near Swanage, Dorset. I then turned my attention to my local area – mainly the Mournes and the Antrim coast… [This] is one of the Mourne ones – exhibited first in the Bell Gallery, Alfred Street”. |
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| Estimate: € 600-800 |
Price Realised: € 320 |
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| Date of Sale: 6 December 2008 |
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| Lot: 9 |
| George Campbell, RHA (1917-1979) |
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| DARK INTERIOR |
| signed lower left; original exhibition label on reverse |
| watercolour and crayon on paper |
| 33 by 22cm., 13 by 8.5in. |
| Provenance: Hendriks Gallery, Dublin; Alexander Spence Auctioneer, Belfast, 28 February 1989, lot 31; Whence purchased by Dr McKee |
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| Notes:This is a favourite theme of Campbell's with the image of the chair and the window behind becoming more abstracted in subsequent versions. The view is that from his studio in Malaga. This version retains much of the clarity of the scene yet allows the vision. |
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| Estimate: € 1200-1500 |
Price Realised: € 520 |
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| Date of Sale: 6 December 2008 |
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| Lot: 10 |
| Alicia Boyle, RBA (1908-1997) |
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| SWAN ISLAND, BANTRY BAY, 1965 |
| signed in monogram lower right; signed and inscribed with title and date on reverse |
| oil on canvas |
| 51 by 76cm., 20 by 30in. |
| Provenance: The Hon. Mrs George Buchanan; Christie's, Belfast Castle, 28 October 1988, lot 442; McKee collection |
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| Literature: Hilary Pyle, Alicia Boyle: A Catalogue of Paintings, Drawings and Prints 1932-1988, Crawford Gallery, Cork, 1988, listed as catalogue no. 246, page 32 |
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| Estimate: € 1500-1800 |
Price Realised: € 750 |
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| Date of Sale: 6 December 2008 |
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| Lot: 11 |
| Edward Montgomery O'Rorke Dickey, CBE HRUA HRCA (1894-1977) |
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| LOUGHISLANDREAVY, COUNTY DOWN, 1921 |
| signed lower right; inscribed and dated on reverse |
| oil on canvas |
| 41 by 51cm., 16 by 20in. |
| Provenance: Rodney Baker Antiques, Co. Armagh; Whence purchased by Dr McKee in 2000 |
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| Notes:Dickey lived in Antrim for a short while after World War I and painted landscapes there and in Counties Down and Donegal. At the time he was one of only a tiny minority of artists working in Northern Ireland who might be considered part of the wider European avant-garde. The present landscape, from this post-war period, depicts the Mourne Mountains in the distance. |
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| Estimate: € 2000-3000 |
Price Realised: € 0 |
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| Date of Sale: 6 December 2008 |
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| Lot: 12 |
| Attributed to F. Bateson Mason, (British, 1910-1977) |
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| MOUNTAIN SCENE, ISLE OF SKYE |
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| oil on board |
| 38 by 58cm., 15 by 23in. |
| Provenance: Simon Carter Gallery, Woodbridge, Suffolk; His sale, Bonhams, Chelsea, 21 January 1988, lot 353; Whence purchased by Dr McKee |
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| Estimate: € 100-200 |
Price Realised: € 270 |
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| Date of Sale: 6 December 2008 |
| Lot: 13 |
| Norah McGuinness, HRHA (1901-1980) |
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| GARDEN STILL LIFE |
| signed with initials lower right |
| pen, ink and watercolour on paper |
| 27 by 19cm., 10.5 by 7.5in. |
| Provenance: The artist's estate; Private collection, Dublin; Dickon Hall Fine Art, Belfast; Whence purchased by Dr McKee |
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| Estimate: € 1500-2000 |
Price Realised: € 2600 |
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| Date of Sale: 6 December 2008 |
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| Lot: 14 |
| Mainie Jellett, (1897-1944) |
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| STUDIO STUDY OF A LADY IN COSTUME, 1919 |
| signed and dated lower right |
| pencil on paper |
| 28 by 25cm., 11 by 9.75in. |
| Provenance: Irish Picture Sale, Christies and HOK, Dublin, 23 October 1989, lot 36; Whence purchased by Dr McKee |
| Exhibited: 'A Centenary Celebration of the life and work of Mainie Jellett', One Oxford Street, Belfast, 3-25 April 1997, ex catalogue (lent by Dr McKee) |
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| Notes:Students at the Westminster school studying under the tutelage of Walter Sickert were often asked to paint models with unusual props. In other Jellet studies of this time the archway in the background is a recurring motif, as is the inclusion of other students at work within the composition. |
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| Estimate: € 800-1200 |
Price Realised: € 520 |
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| Date of Sale: 6 December 2008 |
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| Lot: 15 |
| Markey Robinson, (1918-1999) |
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| SHIPYARD and MAIN YARD (A PAIR) |
| signed lower right and lower left respectively; the second work also inscribed lower left |
| pen and ink with watercolour |
| 19 by 44cm., 7.5 by 17.2 5in. |
| Provenance: Fine Irish Paintings and Drawings, Christie's, Belfast, 28 October 1988, lot 462; Whence purchased by Dr McKee |
| Exhibited: Northern Ireland Civil Defence Art exhibition, circa 1943-44 |
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| Notes:The second work measures 5.5 by 13 inches. |
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| Estimate: € 2000-3000 |
Price Realised: € 1300 |
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| Date of Sale: 6 December 2008 |
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| Lot: 16 |
| Jimmy Bingham, (b.1925) |
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| THE GLEANERS, GORTAHORK, COUNTY DONEGAL, 1975, and COTTAGE ATTICAL, 1993 |
| signed lower left; signed, dated and inscribed with title on reverse |
| oil on board |
| 24 by 30cm., 9.5 by 12in. |
| Provenance: Bell Gallery, Belfast; Whence purchased by Dr McKee in 1988 |
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| Notes:Also with lot is a second work by Jimmy Bingham, Cottage Attical, which was commissioned by Dr McKee in 1993. Painted in oil on board, 14 by 18 inches, it depicts the McKee family's cottage in the Mourne Mountains, Co. Down. Sandy Brae Attical is a lane leading directly to the high pass known as 'windy gap', between Eagle Mountain and Slieve Moughanmore. Bingham shows the hay having been cut with vintage machinery and 'stooked' by hand. |
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| Estimate: € 400-600 |
Price Realised: € 0 |
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| Date of Sale: 6 December 2008 |
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| Lot: 17 |
| Seamus Carmichael, (b.1955) |
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| YORK STREET FLYPAST, 1978 |
| signed and dated lower right; inscribed and numbered lower left |
| etching with embossing (no. 3 from an edition of 10) |
| 24 by 32cm., 9.5 by 12.7 5in. |
| Provenance: Purchased directly from the artist by Dr McKee in 1986 |
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| Notes:With a second work by the same artist: 'Looking Up I Saw...', signed and dated January 1978, colour etching, no. 13 from an edition of 20, 12.5 by 9.25 inches. (2) |
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| Estimate: € 120-150 |
Price Realised: € 140 |
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| Date of Sale: 6 December 2008 |
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| Lot: 18 |
| Kent Jones, (b.1949) |
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| CHAMPION OF THE LAGAN, 1987 |
| signed and dated lower right; artist's label on reverse |
| mixed media on linen |
| 56 by 81cm., 22 by 32in. |
| Provenance: McKee collection |
| Exhibited: Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast, 5-23 October 1987 |
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| Notes:Born in Ohio, Kent Jones studied fine art at the University of California, before taking a Masters at the Slade in London. He moved to Belfast in 1981 and exhibited throughout the eighties at the Fenderesky Gallery. He later moved to Canada, where he is now Professor of Visual Arts at Sir Wilfred Grenfell College of Memorial University of Newfoundland. He is widely represented in academic and public collections in Canada and still exhibits in Ireland, most recently at the Flowerfield Art Centre in Coleraine in 2004. |
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| Estimate: € 600-800 |
Price Realised: € 280 |
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| Date of Sale: 6 December 2008 |
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| Lot: 19 |
| Phillip J. Williamson, UWS (b.1926) |
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| BIRDCAGE WALK, BELFAST |
| signed twice lower left and lower right; inscribed on reverse |
| watercolour, crayon, pen and ink |
| 31 by 50cm., 12.2 5 by 19.5in. |
| Provenance: Christie's, Belfast, 28 October 1988, lot 253; Whence purchased Dr McKee |
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| Notes:This depcition of the main yard at Harland and Wolff Shipyard in Belfast is notable given the rarity of paintings of industrial architecture. It depicts the Arrol Gantry built by Sir William Arrol, who also designed the Forth and Tay rail bridges. This was commissioned specially for the building of the ships RMS Titanic, RMS Olympic and RMS Britannic. The gantry was known colloquially as ‘Birdcage walk’ by the shipyard workers who operated the gantry cranes and the smaller cranes, which they called ‘wall creepers’. Phillip Williamson was born in Moy, Co. Tyrone, and studied art at Methodist College Belfast before serving in the merchant navy. He has exhibited regularly at the RUA with mainly marine subjects. |
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| Estimate: € 120-150 |
Price Realised: € 220 |
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| Date of Sale: 6 December 2008 |
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| Lot: 20 |
| John Luke, RUA (1906-1975) |
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| NET AND ROPEMAKING, 1935 |
| signed lower right; inscribed with title lower left |
| pen and ink over pencil on tracing paper |
| 11 by 25cm., 4.5 by 10in. |
| Provenance: Purchased directly from the artist's family in 1989 |
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| Notes:This mural study almost certainly relates to Luke’s little-known contribution to the Northern Ireland Government’s pavilion at the Glasgow Empire Exhibition in 1938. The commission consisted of fifteen panels depicting industry and labour in Northern Ireland, forming a frieze 45.7m in total length. John Luke and Poppy Mollan supplied the outline drawings, which were then incised in wood by the Belfast sculptor Morris Harding RHA PRUA (1874-1964). Luke later completed three other murals, also on the theme of industry, for Belfast City Hall, the Provincial Masonic Hall in Belfast, and Millfield Technical College. |
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| Estimate: € 1500-2000 |
Price Realised: € 0 |
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| Date of Sale: 6 December 2008 |
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