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Gerard Dillon (1916-1971) PORTRAIT OF JAMES MAGUIRE IN NATIONAL SERVICE UNIFORM, HAMMERSMITH sign...

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Gerard Dillon (1916-1971) PORTRAIT OF JAMES MAGUIRE IN NATIONAL SERVICE UNIFORM, HAMMERSMITH sign...
Gerard Dillon (1916-1971)
PORTRAIT OF JAMES MAGUIRE IN NATIONAL SERVICE UNIFORM, HAMMERSMITH
signed lower right
oil on board
48 by 41cm., 19 by 16in.
Provenance:
Family of the sitter, Wiltshire
James Maguire was a friend of Dillon’s in London, part of the teeming artistic
circle that gathered around Dillon in Abbey Road. According to Maguire’s widow,
he was introduced to Dillon circa 1955 by a mutual friend, Pat Kelly, a
gregarious Belfast-man who, like Dillon, worked periodically on construction
sites in London. (For more on the Abbey Road circle, see James White, Gerard
Dillon: An Illustrated Biography, Wolfhound Press, 1994, pp. 50, 63).
€2,000-€3,000 (£1,400-£2,100 sterling approx.)