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Fine Paintings & Antique Furniture July 28th to August 12th 2010 | ||
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| A new departure for Jorgensen Fine Art is a collaborative exhibition with antiques expert David Allen of Clifden Antiques. Each year at the annual Irish Antique Dealers’ Association, Jorgensen Fine Art constructs a room-setting to show off the paintings on offer. The natural progression was to hold a gallery exhibition combining the two. David Allen’s expertise is widely acknowledged and he has brought together a number of fine items. These include a rare example of a Georgian mahogany Irish centre table, rare because tables of this type were routinely used as side tables. There is also a fine Irish Georgian hunt or wake table, an occasional table, a butler’s tray, metaphoric library steps and an inlaid Belfast table of the same period. A Regency rosewood stool and a pair of Regency chairs, together with a Regency Irish mahogany pedestal desk and side table grace the gallery space. This is merely a selection from the beautiful pieces on show. To complement these the gallery has hung some equally fine and rare paintings, including a stunning flower-piece by the Scottish colourist Arthur Melville whose work influenced that of the Glasgow Boys, and an equally beautiful still-life by Alfred Wolmark. In fact, there is an embarrassment of riches when it comes to still lifes. We have examples by Louise Darru, Niccolo Caracciolo, Conor Walton, George Pennefather, Mary Swanzy and John Aldridge. Several interiors are on show, including the exquisitely tranquil Woman at a Piano by Peter Ilsted, one of the leading Danish artists of the early-20th century. From Joseph Claude Bail, a friend of Matisse, we have a light-filled genre painting depicting three lacemakers in a typical bourgeois setting beloved of the nineteenth-century French collector. Landscape has not been forgotten, with examples by Rose Barton, Jan van Looy, Helen O’Hara and Charles Morris. Síle Connaughton-Deeny |
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