Martin Gale
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Born in Worcester, England, Martin Gale studied at NCAD and represented Ireland at the Paris Biennale in 1980. He has long favoured a form of post-modern hyper-realism which attempts to mimic yet also transcend photography, capturing with painstaking detail not just the fleeting moment but also "a bewildering wealth of impressions" and thereby demonstrating "the extraordinary in the prosaic" (Aidan Dunne, Contemporary Irish Art: A Documentation, Wolfhound Press, Dublin, 1982, p.16). www.whytes.ie
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'GOOD EVENING, 1982'
- Price Realised: 12,500
- Sale: 25 April 2006
- signed and dated on reverse
- 81 by 81cm., 32 by 32in.
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'BY PASS III'
- Price Realised: 12,500
- Sale: 29 November 2005
- oil on canvas, triptych
- 60 by 89cm., 23.5 by 35in.
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'COMING STORM'
- Price Realised: 12,000
- Sale: 26 April 2005
- oil on canvas
- 122 by 122cm., 48 by 48in.
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'BATHERS'
- Price Realised: 10,000
- Sale: 29 November 2005
- oil on canvas
- 152 by 61cm., 60 by 24in.
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'BUENA VISTA, 2007'
- Price Realised: 9,500
- Sale: 18 May 2009
- oil on canvas
- 91 by 91cm., 36 by 36in.
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'VIEW FROM INISHBOFIN'
- Price Realised: 9,000
- Sale: 29 November 2005
- oil on canvas
- 51 by 61cm., 20 by 24in.
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'IN THE MIDLANDS, 1983'
- Price Realised: 8,500
- Sale: 27 May 2024
- oil on canvas; (unframed)
- 42 x 42in. (106.68 x 106.68cm)
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'THE LIE OF THE LAND'
- Price Realised: 8,500
- Sale: 29 April 2003
- oil on canvas
- 71 by 86cm., 28 by 34in.
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'ON THE EDGE'
- Price Realised: 8,380
- Sale: 13 June 2001
- oil on canvas
- 107 by 183cm., 42 by 72in.
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'THE WEATHER IN MAYO, 1999'
- Price Realised: 7,800
- Sale: 25 November 2013
- oil on canvas
- 42 by 48in., 105 by 120cm.
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'DISTANT THUNDER, 1999'
- Price Realised: 7,400
- Sale: 07 December 2020
- oil on canvas; (unframed)
- 43Ό x 59in. (109.86 x 149.86cm)
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'THE ORCHARD KEEPER, 2006'
- Price Realised: 7,200
- Sale: 17 May 2008
- oil on canvas
- 41 by 51cm., 16 by 20in.
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'A FIRE IN THE LAND (BLAZE), 1981'
- Price Realised: 7,000
- Sale: 29 September 2008
- oil on canvas
- 86 by 91cm., 34 by 36in.
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'TERRIBLE BEAUTY'
- Price Realised: 6,500
- Sale: 04 March 2024
- oil on linen
- 8 x 8in. (20.32 x 20.32cm)
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'RETURN, 2001'
- Price Realised: 6,200
- Sale: 02 December 2024
- oil on canvas; (unframed)
- 48 x 48in. (121.92 x 121.92cm)
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'WEEKEND'
- Price Realised: 6,200
- Sale: 27 April 2004
- oil on canvas
- 41 by 51cm., 16 by 20in.
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'A FIRE IN THE LAND (BLAZE)'
- Price Realised: 6,200
- Sale: 19 February 2002
- oil on canvas
- 86 by 91cm., 34 by 36in.
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'AUTUMN COLOUR, 1994'
- Price Realised: 6,000
- Sale: 19 February 2007
- oil on canvas
- 61 by 61cm., 24 by 24in.
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'ON LONELY AVENUE, 1975'
- Price Realised: 6,000
- Sale: 28 November 2006
- oil on canvas
- 51 by 51cm., 20 by 20in.
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'STILL LIFE WITH LEEKS, 1992'
- Price Realised: 5,500
- Sale: 18 May 2009
- watercolour
- 50 by 67cm., 19.7 5 by 26.5in.
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'LATE IN NOVEMBER, 2003'
- Price Realised: 5,500
- Sale: 21 February 2006
- oil on canvas
- 30 by 41cm., 12 by 16in.
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'ENTERING A FOREST'
- Price Realised: 5,500
- Sale: 21 September 2004
- oil on canvas
- 46 by 56cm., 18 by 22in.
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'CONES, 2008'
- Price Realised: 4,800
- Sale: 26 November 2012
- oil on canvas
- 15.75 by 19.75in., 40.005 by 50.165cm.
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'RED RIBBON and WAY OUT EAST (A PAIR)'
- Price Realised: 4,800
- Sale: 16 September 2003
- watercolour
- 30 by 48cm., 12 by 19in.
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'THEIR PONIES, 2014'
- Price Realised: 4,700
- Sale: 26 September 2022
- oil on canvas; (unframed)
- 39 x 47in. (99.06 x 119.38cm)
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'LIKE DREAMERS DO, 1989'
- Price Realised: 4,600
- Sale: 30 September 2024
- oil on canvas
- 21½ x 21½in. (54.61 x 54.61cm)
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'WAY OUT EAST, 1989'
- Price Realised: 4,000
- Sale: 04 March 2024
- watercolour
- 11Ό x 20½in. (28.58 x 52.07cm)
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'LANDSCAPE WITH MAN MENDING COTTAGE ROOF, 1998'
- Price Realised: 4,000
- Sale: 25 April 2006
- signed lower centre; signed again and dated on reverse
- 60 by 60cm., 23.5 by 23.5in.