€170
Star Lot: A limited edition Robert Ballagh (b.1943) (54/300) silkscreen print titled "Peace Through Reconciliation," dating to 1997. This vertical composition is rendered in clean forms in a palette of sky blues. Hand signed, editioned and dated in pencil to base. Appleton's framer's sticker to verso. Ballagh's original paintings fetch into the tens of thousands at auction with prints fetching into the mid hundreds.
MM 35 x 78cm including frame.
Robert Ballagh is an Irish painter and designer credited with the introduction of Pop Art to Ireland. His milieu encompasses set design, the final series of Irish Punt banknotes, commemorative stamps and portraits of Irish literary, historical and establishment figures. He represented Ireland at the 1969 Paris Biennale and his paintings are held in several public collections. Ballagh is a member of Aosdána and the president of the Ireland Institute for Historical and Cultural Studies
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