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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
38.5 x 51.5cm (15 x 20in)
3URYHQDQFH Private Collection
€15,000-25,000 (£13,043-21,739)
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member of the Belfast Art Society. McKelvey was considered one of the most successful Irish landscape painters of his time. He
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which, notwithstanding the often repetitive nature of some of his landscapes, imbued his work with a constant freshness.