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Colin Middleton MBE RHA
(1910-1983)
OWENNAMARVE, COUNTY
DONEGAL,1976
oil on board
signed in monogram lower right;
titled and signed [Colin] and with
monogram again on reverse; also
with typed David Hendriks
Gallery exhibition label on
reverse
24 by 24in. (60.96 by 60.96cm)
Provenance:
David Hendriks Gallery, Dublin;
Whence purchased by the
previous owner;
From whom acquired by the
present owner
Exhibited:
‘Group Show’, David Hendriks
Gallery, Dublin, January 1976
During the period of the mid-
1970s Middleton was sixty-six and
at the peak of his career. The year
this work was painted he was the
subject of a major retrospective
exhibition at Ulster Museum,
Belfast and Municipal Gallery of
Modern Art, Dublin hosted by the
Arts Council.
The Owennamarve River drains a
dozen small loughs into the sea
south of Dungloe.
€5,000-€6,000
(£4,098-£4,918 approx).
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Anna Ritchie (1937-2010)
DARK COMPOSITION, 2, 1964
oil on canvas
signed in pencil lower right; with typed Ritchie Hendriks Gallery label on
reverse; inscribed in pencil on reverse
36 by 32in. (91.44 by 81.28cm)
Provenance:
Ritchie Hendriks Gallery, Dublin;
Where purchased by Miss Hilary Herron (Sculptress), 1964;
From whom gifted to the present owner
Exhibited:
‘Anna Ritchie’, Ritchie Hendriks Gallery, Dublin, May 1964, catalogue no. 4
Anna Ritchie studied art at the Melbourne National Gallery in her native
Australia before moving to England to pursue further studies. Her work had
fgurative beginnings in her early years but later developed a more abstract
approach much like her husband Basil Blackshaw whom she met in Ireland
after a period of travel on the Continent. Their marriage broke up by the
1970s. During her career she held solo shows at the Ritchie Hendriks Gallery,
Dublin, Arts Council Gallery and Queens University, Belfast among other
venue in Ireland and abroad. Her work is represented in the Ulster Museum,
the Arts Council of Ireland and Northern Ireland, Trinity College Dublin as
well as other public and private collections in Ireland and Britain.
€500-€700 (£409-£573 approx).