WHYTE'S IRISH & INTERNATIONAL ART MONDAY 26 May 2025 FROM 6PM

121 IRISH & INTERNATIONAL ART · 26 MAY 2025 AT 6PM 86 Frank McKelvey RHA RUA (1895-1974) LANDSCAPE NEAR HILLSBOROUGH, COUNTY DOWN, c.1926-30 oil on panel signed lower left; original inscribed label on reverse 10.50 by 14.25in. (26.7 by 36.2cm) Frame Size: 16.5 by 19.5 (41.9 by 49.5cm) Provenance: Gift from the artist to Dermod O’Brien PRHA, January 1930; Dermod O’Brien collection dispersal sale, Dawson Gallery, 1945; Whence bought by Dr Cross; Thence by descent within the Cross family; Thomas Adam’s, Blackrock, 4 October 1993, lot 83; Private collection; Whyte’s, 19 February 2007, lot 71; Private collection Exhibited: ‘Paintings from the collection of the late Dermod O’Brien PRHA’, Dawson Gallery, Dublin, 1945 (£20- 0-0) Full inscription reads: “Title / Landscape near Hillsborough / Co. Down / To my good friend Dermod O’Brien / (on a visit to my studio Jan 1930) / with the compliments of the painter”. In a ledger of sales from the dispersal of Dermod O’Brien’s collection, both this painting and a Paul Henry Connemara Landscape are recorded as selling to a Dr Cross; the McKelvey for £20-0-0 and the Henry for £36-15-0 (Dermod O’Brien papers, NLI, MS 34,276 and 36,906/2). €3,000-€4,000 (£2,540-£3,390 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot86