Lot 117
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Gerard Dillon (1916-1971)
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Gerard Dillon (1916-1971)

Names, Names, Names

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Gerard Dillon (1916-1971)
Names, Names, Names
signed 'Gerard/Dillon' (lower right), signed again and inscribed '"NAMES, NAMES,/NAMES."/Gerard Dillon/3 Greville Rd LONDON N.W.6.' (on a label attached to the backboard)
pencil, watercolour, bodycolour, crayon and collage on a printed base
25½ x 39½ in. (64.8 x 100.4 cm.)
Executed circa 1966.
Provenance
with Oriel Gallery, Dublin.
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

Names, Names, Names, painted towards the end of Dillon's life, encorporates the figure of the pierrot to symbolise himself. Dillon's three brothers had all died from heart disease in the early 1960s and he would suffer later in that decade. The pierrot or harlequin is used as a symbol for his grief and sadness, and can be seen recurring throughout his work of this period.

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