Super Star Lot: A stunning, very large original oil on canv...

Hammer

€9,000

Super Star Lot: A stunning, very large original oil on canvas painting titled "The Navy Mountain" by David Marcus Robinson (1918-1999) better known as the artist Markey. Features a west of Ireland landscape of lime washed cottages in Markey's iconic flattened naive style, populated by his "Shawlie" characters. Similar type and sized work has sold at Whytes for €24,000 but Markey's works have sold up to €40,000 at auction. This is the largest best Markey we have seen its fabulous with amazing colours.
Mm: 94 x 68 cm in frame.
Provenance: "Exhibition of Recent Paintings by Markey" at the Oriel Gallery, 1980.
From a fabulous home in Eglington road, Dublin, the painting was reframed in the 2000s they did ask that the original back the oriel Gallery label be left on it is possible its inside but we didn't open the painting.

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 recognisable 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).