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Irish & International A rt A uction
Monday 25th April 2016 at 6.00pm
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122
signed lower right
oil on board
49 x 38.25cm (19 x 15in)
Provenance: Apollo Gallery, Dublin (stamped verso)
Private Collection
€3,000-5,000 (£2,343-3,906)
Markey Robinson was born in Belfast in 1918. He was the son of a house painter and spent time as a boxer and as a merchant sailor.
He trained at the Belfast College of Art and was a prolific Irish artist with a distinctive naive expressionist style. His first exhibitions
were in Belfast during World War II. His main passion was painting, but he also produced sculptures, and designed some stained
glass panels. His paintings cover a wide range of subjects, but there are certain recurring features. As an artist, Markey Robinson
produced artworks with similar elements to those of Matisse, Derain and Picasso (especially his clown and figure studies). His work
has also been influenced by the Incas and the Aztecs, as evidenced by his authentic style of bold brush paintwork.