DRESSED UP Gerard Dillon (1916-1971)
Signature: signed in pencil lower right; with inscribed Dawson Gallery label on reverse Medium: gouache with collage on paper laid on board Dimensions: 35 by 65cm., 13.75 by 25.5in. Provenance: Provenance:Dawson Gallery, Dublin; Private collection Contained in original Dawson Gallery frame. It is likely that the three figures in this work represent the artist’s deceased brothers which appeared regularly in Dillon’s oeuvre from the mid 1960s i... in different guises and landscapes. Dressed Up is reminiscent of several other ‘imaginative paintings’ from this period such as Magic in the Sky, 1968 from the O’Driscoll Collection, sold through Whyte’s, 31 May, 2010 lot 3 for €28,000. The textured landscape and intense palette in Dressed Up is unearthly and reinforces the dominance of the fantastical in this work, during this period. The menacing figures of the masked brothers, each gazing over their right shoulder, creates a sense of unease. Their presence in Dillon’s work is haunting evidence of the artist’s preoccupation with his own mortality. His three brothers died of heart related illnesses in quick succession between 1962 and 1966. Many of the works from this period featured the clown Pierrot. James White in his book Gerard Dillon An Illustrated Biography, notes that Dillon used the figure of Pierrot as an alter ego. Dillon held one-man exhibitions with the Dawson Gallery Dublin almost annually from 1957 to his death 1971. more
DRESSED UP Gerard Dillon (1916-1971)
Signature: signed in pencil lower right; with inscribed Dawson Gallery label on reverse Medium: gouache with collage on paper laid on board Dimensions: 35 by 65cm., 13.75 by 25.5in. Provenance: Provenance:Dawson Gallery, Dublin; Private collection Contained in original Dawson Gallery frame. It is likely that the three figures in this work represent the artist’s deceased brothers which appeared regularly in Dillon’s oeuvre from the mid 1960s i... in different guises and landscapes. Dressed Up is reminiscent of several other ‘imaginative paintings’ from this period such as Magic in the Sky, 1968 from the O’Driscoll Collection, sold through Whyte’s, 31 May, 2010 lot 3 for €28,000. The textured landscape and intense palette in Dressed Up is unearthly and reinforces the dominance of the fantastical in this work, during this period. The menacing figures of the masked brothers, each gazing over their right shoulder, creates a sense of unease. Their presence in Dillon’s work is haunting evidence of the artist’s preoccupation with his own mortality. His three brothers died of heart related illnesses in quick succession between 1962 and 1966. Many of the works from this period featured the clown Pierrot. James White in his book Gerard Dillon An Illustrated Biography, notes that Dillon used the figure of Pierrot as an alter ego. Dillon held one-man exhibitions with the Dawson Gallery Dublin almost annually from 1957 to his death 1971. more
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