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

Oil on board, 30 x 37cm (12 x 14½”)

Signed

Provenance: With Hendriks Gallery, label verso, where purchased by the collector

Harold Pickering and thence by descent to the current owner.

A Chemical Engineer, Harold Pickering was a Director of Calor Gas and made frequent business trips to Dublin in

the 1960s. He regularly attended exhibitions at the Richie Hendriks Gallery and collected Irish art by such artists

as Gerard Dillon, Arthur Armstrong and Eric Patton. He lent pictures to a group exhibition,” Eight Irish Artists”, or-

ganized by David Hendriks to the Savage Gallery, London, 1962 which included works by Collins. He retired from

Calor Gas in 1969. He commissioned Gerard Dillon to do some murals on the walls of his family home family

home Dane House, in Surrey which have unfortunately been painted over in the last decade.

€ 3,000 - 5,000