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I RISH & INTERNATIONAL ART AUCTION
M ONDAY 10TH APRIL 2017 AT 6.00PM
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signed & dated August ‘83 lower right, titled lower left & bears artist’s archive no: 6269 on reverse
mixed media on board
40 x 50cm (16 x 20in)
3URYHQDQFH Nicholas Gallery, Belfast (label verso);
Private Collection
€4,000-6,000 (£3,478-5,217)
Tony O’Malley was born in Callan, Co.Kilkenny in 1913 and was a self-taught artist, having drawn and painted for
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tradition of assemblage that stretches back to Pablo Picasso and to Kurt Schwitters, artists he admired. Some of his
contemporaries in St Ives, like Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth and Peter Lanyon were also drawn to the medium
of collage and assemblage. Drawing was the necessary root of all of O’Malley’s work and concisely knotted the
mediums together. A highly respected artist, his works are represented in all major Irish museums and included in the
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