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.
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Acquired from Dawson Gallery, Dublin in the late 1970s by Cathal Mooney and thence by descent
Department of External Affairs, no.380: 16.IX.1957, illustrated;
James White, Gerard Dillon, Wolfhound Press, Dublin, 1994, illustrated pp.37 and 76
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