ADAM'S - Important Irish Art Auction - 31st May 2017 (Click Lot title for more images and to Place Bid)

104

Oil on board, 41 x 74cm (16 x 29’’)

Signed

Provenance: From the Collection of the late Cyril Murray, a friend of the artist from the 1940s.

Exhibited: ‘

Gerard Dillon 1916-1971

’, Retrospective Exhibition, Ulster Museum, Belfast November/December, 1972

and The Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin January/February, 1973, Cat No. 4

The discovery of a photograph (see image) of a baby in christening robes suggests that this work may have been

commissioned by a friend or a family relative sometime in the 1950s / early 1960s.

€ 3,000 - 5,000

The Cy r i l Mur ray Co l l ec t i on