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I RISH & INTERNATIONAL ART AUCTION
M ONDAY 10TH APRIL 2017 AT 6.00PM
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signed lower left
oil on canvas
51 x 76.25cm (20 x 30in)
3URYHQDQFH Private Collection
€3,000-4,000 (£2,608-3,478)
George Kennedy Gillespie was born in Belfast in 1924. Educated from 1941 until 1945 at Belfast High School, he attended even-
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in the late 1950’s when he attended painting classes in the studio of R. Boyd Morrison in Hollywood, County Down. He held his
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Gillespie admired the academic work of such Ulster practitioners as James Humbert Craig and Frank McKelvey. Donegal was his
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to avoid prolonged exposure to the elements, the camera assisted him in his compositions.