€600
Super Star Lot: An intense original David "Markey" Marcus Robinson (Irish, b.1918-d.1999) gouache on unbleached paper painting featuring a figurative composition of fearsome warriors, rendered in Markey's iconic flattened naive style with thick outline in an earthen palette. Presented in a smart black frame. Apollo Gallery framer sticker and stamp to verso. Similar type and sized works by Markey fetch up to €3,000, with his larger pieces having fetched €40,000.
Mm: 43 x 55 cm including frame.
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Markey, now well established as one of Ireland's leading names in art, had brushes with careers of all kinds, but it was to art that Markey dedicated nearly all of his life. He ultimately has become one of the most recognizable and consistently saleable painters in Ireland. Although he originally lived and worked in Belfast, Markey frequently travelled the world in search of the images that would become iconic in his paintings. His trips to Spain and Africa provided stunning, simplistic images of buildings and life from around the world, but it was Ireland that captured Markey's imagination most of all. His paintings depict the countryside with flat, muted colour and in his almost abstract, almost geometrical compositions, he seems to capture the easy relationship between beauty and sadness. He exhibited widely at venues including the Ulster Academy of Arts, Belfast Museum and Art Gallery, at The Irish Exhibition of Living Art, Oriel Gallery and Magee Gallery. His paintings can be found in the collection of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Ulster Museum, Queens University and the VHI. Markey Robinson's work featured in 'Ireland: Her People and Landscape' exhibition (2012) and 'Ulster Artists' exhibition (2010).
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