€150
Star Lot: A vintage Maurice Canning Wilks (b.1910 - d.1984) watercolour on paper painting titled "From Glengormley, Co. Antrim." Features the titular landscape with a tall tree dominating the composition set against sepia toned rolling hills. Housed in a white wooden frame and signed bottom left. Wilks has a very strong auction history with similar works in oil fetching into the early thousands at Whytes.
MM 40cm x 33cm in frame.
Maurice Canning Wilks was an Irish landscape painter. Born in Belfast in 1910 to a linen designer, he was educated in Belfast at the Malone Public School and attended evening classes at the Belfast College of Art. While attending college he was awarded the Dunville Scholarship allowing him to attend day classes
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