IRISH & INTERNATIONAL ART 28 September 2026

79 IRISH & INTERNATIONAL ART · 28 SEPTEMBER 2026 AT 6PM 51 Gerard Dillon (1916-1971) ITALIAN VILLAGE, late 1940s watercolour signed lower right 10 by 14in. (25.4 by 35.6cm) Frame Size: 15.75 by 19.25in. (40 by 48.9cm) The village is likely to be Borgotaro in Northern Italy. Dillon visited Italy in the summer of 1947. He travelled with his friend Pino Saglietti, who had family in Borgotaro. He found the rustic way of life in Borgotaro much more interesting and inspiring than the grandeur of Italian history and joked to Pino that Borgotaro was not Italy but ‘Ireland up the hills’. 1 Footnote: 1 Gerard Dillon, quoted in Gerard Dillon: An Illustrated Biography, James White, Wolfhound Press, Dublin, 1994, p. 58) €2,500-€3,500 (£2,140-£2,990 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot51