ADAM’S Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers in Dublin return to The Crescent Arts Centre in Belfast this week for their second preview exhibition of Important Irish Art.
Opening today, Adam's are once again presenting a 'roll-call' of noted 20th century Irish artists, including Jack B and John B Yeats, Paul Henry, Sean Keating, Roderic O'Connor, Louis le Brocquy, Gerard Dillon, Colin Middleton, James Humbert Craig and Neil
Shawcross.
On view for the first time in Ireland and not seen by the public for 70 years, Jack B Yeats’s By Drumcliffe Strand, Long Ago (1934) was originally purchased by British art collector Sir Hugh Walpole. Sold at The Leger Gallery in London in 1946 to Lord Killanin, it now comes directly for sale from his family at an estimated price of €80,000 to €120,000.
Another Yeats making its public debut in Ireland is the late oil Birds Are on The Move (1955), which has spent the last 45 years travelling around Europe with the de Keller family having being purchased by Swiss Ambassador to Ireland, Guy de Keller, in 1971.
'Belfast boy' Gerard Dillon is represented by The Dung Hill, originally shown in the Irish Exhibition of Living Art in 1953 and last seen in public at his retrospective in 1972.
An early Belfast Street Scene (1944) by his contemporary Colin Middleton is estimated at €25,000 to €35,000, while works by the other 'Belfast boys', Arthur Armstrong and George Campbell are also included.
:: Daily until Thursday May 19; 11am to 5pm; admission free.
