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The Poet Smiles

Seamus Heaney Sketchbook, Harvard University, Boston 1994

10 sepia ink & watercolour drawings bound in linen. Each 7" x 5"

Provenance: Acquired by Stables Gallery directly from the artist 

Price on application

In 1994 Ross Wilson was commissioned to make a portrait of Seamus Heaney. This sketchbook is one of three bound sets of drawings made during sittings with the poet. At the time, Heaney was a visiting professor at Harvard University, Boston. The second sketchbook is in the collection of the artist and the third is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London

To view Ross Wilson's portraits in the NPG, please click here.

(This important sketchbook is offered bound on the understanding that it should not be split. It is possible, however, to show on a wall one drawing at a time in a special frame. Please ask for details.)

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Noel Murphy (b.1970)

Rome

oil  5" x 6" £750

Noel Murphy is one of the most important Irish artists

of his generation.

In 2003 he was awarded a highly prestigious commission to paint the Northern Ireland Assembly in session.

Only one other artist has received such an accolade -

William Conor in 1921.

Murphy's much-acclaimed finished painting now hangs in the Senate Chamber in Parliament Buildings, Stormont, Belfast.

To view both works click here

James MacIntyre RUA

(b. 1926)

Early Morning Conversation

oil 20" x 19"

Provenance: Bell Gallery Exhibition 1985

Price on application  SOLD

James MacIntyre is one of Ireland's leading figurative artists of the 20th Century. He is a member of the Royal Ulster Academy and has exhibited widely.

An accomplished author & illustrator as well as a delightfully original easel artist, he has written and illustrated several highly acclaimed books- Making My Mark & Three Men on an Island  (an amusing and reflective account of his time spent on the Aran Islands in the 1950's with several other celebrated Irish artists, including Gerard Dillon & George Campbell)

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   Ross Wilson (b.1957)

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Markey (1918-1998)

Village in the Mournes

Gouache 24" x 48"

Price on application

The Poet Smiles: No.1 of 10                The Poet Smiles: Bound linen cover         The Poet Smiles: No. 8 of 10

Gladys Maccabe MBE  HRUA HROI (born 1918)

George Evelyn Hann (died 1979)

Flowers

oil  20" x 24" £975  SOLD

A painter in oils of English and French cityscapes, harbours and still life, George Hann lived and worked in Brighton where he built a reputation as an English Impressionist of high quality. His forte was the skillful use of impasto and his work can be found in numerous private collections throughout Britain.

George Evelyn Hann  Flowers oil 20" x 24"                                                                                                         

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                          At the Races  mixed media  17" x 28"  £2450

Cecil Maguire RUA (born 1930)

SOLD

SOLD

Early Morning, Roundstone (1983)   10" x 10" £3250

SOLD