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64 40 Gerard Dillon (1916-1971) PIERROT WITH A PAINTING OF A PHOENIX, c.1966 crayon, watercolour, pen and ink signed lower left; inscribed on reverse 20 by 16in. (50.8 by 40.6cm) Frame Size: 32.5 by 28in. (82.6 by 71.1cm) Provenance: Dawson Gallery, Dublin; Private collection since 1979; Bell Gallery, Belfast; Private collection, Belfast; Whyte’s, 21 September 2004, lot 16; Private collection Exhibited: (possibly) ‘Gerard Dillon: Drawings and Collages’, Dawson Gallery, Dublin, 1966, as Clown with a Bird Painting, catalogue no. 10 This work survived a bomb blast which destroyed the former premises of the Bell Gallery, Lisburn Road, Belfast. €4,000-€6,000 (£3,360-£5,040 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot40