ADAM'S - IMPORTANT IRISH ART, WEDNESDAY 29TH MARCH 2017 (Click Lot title for more images and to Place Bid)

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President Mary Robinson in
Basil Blackshaw’s Studio
Pencil, 30 x 20.5cm (11¾ x 8’’)
Basil Blackshaw studio label signed by the artist’s daughter verso
Provenance: The artist’s studio and thence by descent
This is a study for the portrait commissioned by the OPW in 1997, when Mary Robinson became President. It hung for a while in the entrance to
Leinster House before moving to its current home at Aras an Uachtarain.
€ 500 - 800