IRISH & INTERNATIONAL ART 29 SEPTEMBER 2025

73 IRISH & INTERNATIONAL ART · 29 SEPTEMBER 2025 AT 6PM 51 Basil Blackshaw HRHA RUA (1932-2016) DUNADRY BANKS, FOUR VIEWS AFTER THE POEM OF THE SAME NAME BY PAUL YATES mixed media on paper; (4) three signed lower right; one signed lower left 11.50 by 11.50in. (29.2 by 29.2cm) Frame Size: 23.25 by 23.25in. (59.1 by 59.1cm) Provenance: Whyte’s, 28 November 2006, lot 29; Private collection; Whyte’s, 27 November 2017, lot 72; Private collection The four Dunadry mixed-media paintings, refer to a Poem- and-Prints limited edition for U.N.I.C.E.F. None of these works can be classed as illustration. In some cases, Basil responded to a specific poem, in others the poet responded to Basil’s images, but as the painter Jack Pakenham trenchantly noted, they were all ‘independent images sparked off in his imagination by the poems’ Brian McAvera €6,000-€8,000 (£5,220-£6,960 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot51