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I RISH & INTERNATIONAL ART AUCTION
M ONDAY 10TH APRIL 2017 AT 6.00PM
75
signed top left & dated ‘12, signed, titled & dated on reverse
oil on canvas
51 x 41cm (20 x 16in)
3URYHQDQFH Acquired directly from the artist;
Private Collection
€4,000-6,000 (£3,478-5,217)
Geoffrey Key was born in Manchester, England, in 1941. His early education was at Manchester’s High
School of Art. In 1958 he commenced a degree and post graduate studies at the Manchester Regional
College of Art, from where he gained the National Diploma of Design and the Diploma of Associateship of
Manchester. His academic awards include the Heywood medal in Fine Art and the Guthrie Bond Travelling
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contemporary woman. His work has been and is exhibited widely and features in important public, corporate
and private art throughout the world. Northern English collectors have long prized his work, but Key’s oils
are now to be found in international collections from Geneva to Beijing.