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Auction archive: Lot number 174

James Dixon (1887-1970) Gut Fishing in

Estimate
€1,887 - €1,970
ca. US$2,493 - US$2,602
Price realised:
€15,000
ca. US$19,819
Auction archive: Lot number 174

James Dixon (1887-1970) Gut Fishing in

Estimate
€1,887 - €1,970
ca. US$2,493 - US$2,602
Price realised:
€15,000
ca. US$19,819
Beschreibung:

James Dixon (1887-1970) Gut Fishing in Camus More, Tory Island Oil on paper, 55 x 75cm, (21. 6 x 29.5'') Signed, inscribed and dated 'Gut Fishing in Camus More/Tory Island/By James Dixon/14.10.64' (lower centre) James Dixon is probably Irelands only true Primitive painter having very rarely ever ventured away from his native Tory Island off the Northwest coast of Donegal. His discovery by the painter Derek Hill is now legend. Observing Mr Hill painting a landscape of the West End Village on Tory he is said to have remarked ''I think I could do better''. Hill immediately encouraged him by sending him paints. Dixon preferred to work on paper and when offered paint brushes he said he would make his own out of hair from his Donkey. Hill organised exhibitions of the work of the Tory painters, the first of which took place at the New Gallery,Belfast in 1966 but following on shortly afterwards he had exhibitions at the Dawson Gallery, Dublin, Autodidaky Gallery,Vienna and the Portal Gallery, London. His work entered the collections of The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, The Hugh Lane Gallery and Bournemouth Art Gallery. His legacy lives on in what is now referred to as the Tory Island School of painting. Homage was paid to him when in 2000 there was a joint exhibition with that other famous primitive painter Alfred Wallis organised by the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the Tate Gallery St. Ives, Cornwall James Dixon (1887-1970) Gut Fishing in Camus More, Tory Island Oil on paper, 55 x 75cm, (21. 6 x 29.5'') Signed, inscribed and dated 'Gut Fishing in Camus More/Tory Island/By James Dixon/14.10.64' (lower centre) James Dixon is probably Irelands only true Primitive painter having very rarely ever ventured away from his native Tory Island off the Northwest coast of Donegal. His discovery by the painter Derek Hill is now legend. Observing Mr Hill painting a landscape of the West End Village on Tory he is said to have remarked ''I think I could do better''. Hill immediately encouraged him by sending him paints. Dixon preferred to work on paper and when offered paint brushes he said he would make his own out of hair from his Donkey. Hill organised exhibitions of the work of the Tory painters, the first of which took place at the New Gallery,Belfast in 1966 but following on shortly afterwards he had exhibitions at the Dawson Gallery, Dublin, Autodidaky Gallery,Vienna and the Portal Gallery, London. His work entered the collections of The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, The Hugh Lane Gallery and Bournemouth Art Gallery. His legacy lives on in what is now referred to as the Tory Island School of painting. Homage was paid to him when in 2000 there was a joint exhibition with that other famous primitive painter Alfred Wallis organised by the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the Tate Gallery St. Ives, Cornwall

Auction archive: Lot number 174
Auction:
Datum:
5 Dec 2006
Auction house:
Adams's
St Stephens Green 26
D02 X665 Dublin 2
Ireland
info@adams.ie
+353-1-6760261)
Beschreibung:

James Dixon (1887-1970) Gut Fishing in Camus More, Tory Island Oil on paper, 55 x 75cm, (21. 6 x 29.5'') Signed, inscribed and dated 'Gut Fishing in Camus More/Tory Island/By James Dixon/14.10.64' (lower centre) James Dixon is probably Irelands only true Primitive painter having very rarely ever ventured away from his native Tory Island off the Northwest coast of Donegal. His discovery by the painter Derek Hill is now legend. Observing Mr Hill painting a landscape of the West End Village on Tory he is said to have remarked ''I think I could do better''. Hill immediately encouraged him by sending him paints. Dixon preferred to work on paper and when offered paint brushes he said he would make his own out of hair from his Donkey. Hill organised exhibitions of the work of the Tory painters, the first of which took place at the New Gallery,Belfast in 1966 but following on shortly afterwards he had exhibitions at the Dawson Gallery, Dublin, Autodidaky Gallery,Vienna and the Portal Gallery, London. His work entered the collections of The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, The Hugh Lane Gallery and Bournemouth Art Gallery. His legacy lives on in what is now referred to as the Tory Island School of painting. Homage was paid to him when in 2000 there was a joint exhibition with that other famous primitive painter Alfred Wallis organised by the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the Tate Gallery St. Ives, Cornwall James Dixon (1887-1970) Gut Fishing in Camus More, Tory Island Oil on paper, 55 x 75cm, (21. 6 x 29.5'') Signed, inscribed and dated 'Gut Fishing in Camus More/Tory Island/By James Dixon/14.10.64' (lower centre) James Dixon is probably Irelands only true Primitive painter having very rarely ever ventured away from his native Tory Island off the Northwest coast of Donegal. His discovery by the painter Derek Hill is now legend. Observing Mr Hill painting a landscape of the West End Village on Tory he is said to have remarked ''I think I could do better''. Hill immediately encouraged him by sending him paints. Dixon preferred to work on paper and when offered paint brushes he said he would make his own out of hair from his Donkey. Hill organised exhibitions of the work of the Tory painters, the first of which took place at the New Gallery,Belfast in 1966 but following on shortly afterwards he had exhibitions at the Dawson Gallery, Dublin, Autodidaky Gallery,Vienna and the Portal Gallery, London. His work entered the collections of The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, The Hugh Lane Gallery and Bournemouth Art Gallery. His legacy lives on in what is now referred to as the Tory Island School of painting. Homage was paid to him when in 2000 there was a joint exhibition with that other famous primitive painter Alfred Wallis organised by the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the Tate Gallery St. Ives, Cornwall

Auction archive: Lot number 174
Auction:
Datum:
5 Dec 2006
Auction house:
Adams's
St Stephens Green 26
D02 X665 Dublin 2
Ireland
info@adams.ie
+353-1-6760261)
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