SUMMER ONLINE ART SALE TIMED AUCTION - ENDS MONDAY 30 JUNE 2025
103 SUMMER ONLINE ART SALE Ends Monday 30 June 2025 from 6PM 100 James MacIntyre RUA (1926-2015) PIPE SMOKER, 1941 pen and ink signed lower right; inscribed with title on reverse; also with inscribed Bell Gallery label on reverse 6.25 by 4.50in. (15.9 by 11.4cm) Frame Size: 12.25 by 10.5in. (31.1 by 26.7cm) Provenance: Bell Gallery, Belfast; Private collection; Whyte’s, 15 March 2010, lot 120; Private collection; Whyte’s, 30 May 2011, lot 76; Private collection Literature: MacIntyre, James, Making My Mark, An Artist’s Early life, Blackstaff Press, Belfast, 2001, p.62 (illustrated) This work depicts a character known to the artist from his youth, Sammy Gourley, described in his text, Making my Mark, as “...a gnarled, pipe smoking hardened countryman who literally owned nothing but the clothes he stood up in...”. €100-€200 (£80-£170 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot100
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