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41 Gerard Dillon (1916-1971) Red Nude with Loving Pierrot

signed lower right

oil on canvas

91.75 x 122cm (36 x 48in)

Provenance:

Dawson Gallery, Dublin;

Taylor Galleries, Dublin;

Private Collection

Exhibited:

Irish Exhibition of Living Art (IELA) 1970

Literature:

Gerard Dillon - An Illustrated Biography by James White

and Published by Wolfhound Press. Illustrated on page 107

€15,000-25,000 (£13,043-21,739)

Dillon was born in Belfast in 1916. About 1936 he started out as an artist, almost entirely self-taught but attended art classes in

Belfast for a short period. He and Dan O’Neill were painting acquaintances.

In 1958, Dillon had the double honour of representing Ireland at the Guggenheim International, and Great Britain at the Pittsburg

International Exhibition. He travelled widely in Europe and taught for brief periods in the London art schools.

In 1967, Dillon had a stroke and from this time his work changed direction. He realised that he had a problem from which he was

most likely going to die prematurely. This notion of imminent death sent his work almost into another world, a realm of dreams and

paintings intimating his death.