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Martin Mac Keown (b.1931)
!e Double Candlesticks
Oil on canvas board, 50 x 60cms (19.7 x 23.6”)
Signed, also signed and inscribed with title on
label verso
Exhibited:
Martin MacKeown Exhibition,
!e Ava
Gallery, Co. Down, September 2011, Cat. No. 5
Martin Mac Keown spent most of his life abroad
and sadly has become just a footnote in Irish Art
books either as the son-in-law of Tom Carr or col-
league of Basil Blackshaw. His son, James is also a
painter who now lives and works in France. He has
reconnected with Ireland having had exhibitions
in both Dublin and Belfast. Martin studied at the
Belfast College of Art where John Luke and Ro-
meo Toogood numbered amongst his teachers.His
&rst two-man show was with Basil Blackshaw with
whom he worked very closely at the CEMA (Arts
Council) Galleries. He won a scholarship from the
Belfast College of Art to study at Edinburgh Col-
lege of Art and from there he won a scholarship
that took him across Europe after graduation.!is
was the beginning of his travelling which he con-
tinued to do with his family, even living for a while
in Turkey. He returned to painting seriously in the
late 1980s and exhibited in London and Belfast as
well as with several regional galleries in the UK.
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Alexey Krasnovsky (b.1945)
John Coltrane Ballads
Oil on canvas, 59 x 76cm (23# x 30”)
Signed and dated 2010; signed, dated and inscribed
with title verso
Provenance: With Jorgensen Fine Art
where purchased
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