GERARD DILLON | THE DREAMER
Estimate:
100,000 - 150,000 GBP
GERARD DILLON | THE DREAMER
GERARD DILLON | THE DREAMER
Estimate:
100,000 - 150,000 GBP
Lot sold:
378,000
GBP
Description
GERARD DILLON
1916-1971
THE DREAMER
signed l.l.: Gerard Dillon; titled on the reverse
oil on board
121 by 180.5cm., 47½ by 71in.
Condition report
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Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist by Cathal Mooney and thence by descent
Literature
Department of External Affairs, no.380: 16.IX.1957, illustrated;
James White, Gerard Dillon, Wolfhound Press, Dublin, 1994, illustrated pp.37 and 76
Exhibited
Dublin, Irish Exhibition of Living Art, 1957, no.66, illustrated;
Dublin, Irish Exhibition of Living Art, 1971, no.101, illustrated;
Belfast, Ulster Museum, Gerard Dillon Retrospective Exhibition, 1972, no.43, with tour to Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, 1973;
Culturlann, Dillon Gallery, Gerard Dillon (1916-1971) Centenary Exhibition, 2016, no.7, illustrated