IRISH & INTERNATIONAL ART 28 September 2026

112 77 Martin Gale RHA (b.1949) BY PASS III, 2003 oil on canvas; (triptych); (unframed) signed lower centre; signed and dated on each canvas on reverse 23.50 by 35.25in. (59.7 by 89.5cm) Provenance: Whyte’s, 29 November 2005, lot 132; Private collection Exhibited: ’Martin Gale: Paintings’, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin, 17 September to 24 October 2004, and Ulster Museum, Belfast, 2 December 2004 to 27 March 2005 Born in Worcester, England, Martin Gale studied at NCAD and represented Ireland at the Paris Biennale in 1980. He has long favoured a form of post-modern hyper-realism which attempts to mimic yet also transcend photography, capturing with painstaking detail not just the fleeting moment but also “a bewildering wealth of impressions” and thereby demonstrating “the ex-traordinary in the prosaic” (Aidan Dunne, Contemporary Irish Art: A Documentation, Wolfhound Press, Dublin, 1982, p.16). €6,000-€8,000 (£5,130-£6,840 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot77