Rowel Boyd Friers
Rowel Friers was a cartoonist, illustrator, painter and lithographer who grew up in the Lagan Village area of Belfast and was apprenticed at the age of fifteen to the Belfast lithographic firm S. C. Smith and Co, while studying at the Belfast College of Art from until 1942. In the 1940s he began pulishing his cartoons, concentrating on a particularly political subject matter at the beginning of 'the troubles' in the late 1960s. www.whytes.ie His work appeared in publications such as 'Punch', 'The Radio Times', 'The Sunday Independent' and 'The Irish Times' among others. Friers was also an important figure in the Ulster Watercolour Society. His oil paintings hang in th National Portrait Gallery, The Gallery of the Ulster Museum and many other collections. He illustrated in a variety of books, including an American edition of the works of W.B. Yeats. He was awarded the MBE in 1977. He was president of the Royal Ulster Academy of Arts from 1993 to 1997. www.whytes.ie
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'RINGDUFFERIN NEAR KILLINCHY, COUNTY DOWN, 24 NOVEMBER, 1942'
- Price Realised: 350
- Sale: 30 November 2009
- watercolour over pencil
- 25 by 31cm., 10 by 12.2 5in.
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'NOW DON'T BREATHE A WORD OF THIS, 1986'
- Price Realised: 300
- Sale: 12 December 2022
- ink and crayon
- 18 x 20in. (45.72 x 50.80cm)
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'THE JOKER IN THE PACK'
- Price Realised: 300
- Sale: 12 December 2022
- ink and crayon
- 24 x 20in. (60.96 x 50.80cm)
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'TRADITIONALIST, 1985'
- Price Realised: 300
- Sale: 12 December 2022
- ink and crayon
- 19½ x 16½in. (49.53 x 41.91cm)
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'LAST MINUTE TIP'
- Price Realised: 290
- Sale: 09 July 2018
- ink and watercolour
- 18½ x 13½in. (46.99 x 34.29cm)
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'I SAID THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION WAS WHEN ME DA REFUSED TO WASH THE DISHES'
- Price Realised: 150
- Sale: 17 October 2022
- ink and pencil
- 8 x 7in. (20.32 x 17.78cm)
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'HAVE YE IVER WUNDERED, SAMUEL JAMES, WHAT FARMER ST. PATRICK WROUGHT FOR WHEN HE WUZ LUKIN'AFTER THON SHEEP'
- Price Realised: 150
- Sale: 17 October 2022
- ink and pencil
- 11 x 11in. (27.94 x 27.94cm)