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Gerard Dillon (1916-1971) HEAD OF MOLLY, THE ARTI

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Gerard Dillon (1916-1971) HEAD OF MOLLY, THE ARTI
<B>Gerard Dillon (1916-1971)</B><BR>HEAD OF MOLLY, THE ARTIST'S SISTER<BR>signed at base<BR>terracotta bust with painted finish, on a marble plinth<BR>24cm., 9.5in. high excluding base<BR>Nine years older than her brother, Molly Dillon worked as a young girl in a cloth mill in Belfast. In the 1930s she moved to London, where she and Gerard shared a flat in Alexander Road, St John's Wood. There she worked as a dressmaker and eventually bought a house in Abbey Road, London, the basement of which she rented to her brother. The Abbey Road house was a regular haunt of many artists and writers, not to mention Molly's menagerie of stray cats and dogs, until London Borough Council ordered it demolished in 1963.<BR>
Further information has come to light, which suggests this work may date to 1943. In a review of Dillon and O'Neill's joint exhibition at the Contemporary Pictures Gallery, Dublin, art critic Thomas MacGreevy wrote: "there is no denying the touching and often humorous charm
that characterizes Gerard Dillon's paintings and water colours, and also a single experiment in sculpture included here" (Irish Times, 6 December 1943, p. 2).
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