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108 Robert Ballagh (b.1943) Man and a Gottlieb (1974)signed, titled & dated 1974 on reverse
oil on canvas (16 panels)
244 x 244cm (96 x 96in)
Provenance:
James Adam’s, Dublin, 27th March 2002, Lot 133;
Private Collection
€10,000-15,000 (£8,695-13,043)
Robert Ballagh was born in Dublin in 1943 and studied at the Bolton Street College of Technology. His painting style was strongly
influenced by pop art & he is particularly well known for his hyperealistic renderings of well known Irish literary, historical or es-
tablishment figures. Ballagh represented Ireland at the 1969 Biennale de Paris. He is a member of Aosdána and his paintings are held
in several public collections of Irish painting including the National Gallery of Ireland, the Hugh Lane Gallery, the Ulster Museum,
Trinity College Dublin, and Nuremberg’s Albrecht Dürer House.