Martin FennellyAntiques

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Look what Martin Fennelly Antiques has put up for sale on-line: <br/><br/> <a href='http://www.fennelly.net/Item.aspx?id=23107'>704 Sold Reginald Gray (1930-2013) - Looking at Gerhard Richter's Confrontation 3 Gudrun Ensslin</a><br/><br/><img src='https://file.4pm.ie/915/76c46fa7.jpg.114x137.png' alt='704 Sold Reginald Gray (1930-2013) - Looking at Gerhard Richter's Confrontation 3 Gudrun Ensslin'/><br/><p style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I was fortunate to acquire this <strong>Reginald Gray</strong> at Auction here in Dublin. This Oil on Board <strong>'Looking at Gerhard Richter's Confrontation 3 Gudrun Ensslin'</strong> has excited many Art experts and Historians that i engaged with today due to the Gray's excellent message in this Superb Painting. </span></span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>Reginald Gray</b>&nbsp; was an Irish portrait artist. He studied at The National College of Art (1953) and then moved to London, becoming part of the School of London led by <strong>Francis Bacon</strong>, <strong>Lucian Freud</strong> and <strong>Frank Auerbach</strong>. In 1960, he painted a portrait of Bacon which now hangs in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London. Reginald Gray's art is very distinctive, becoming very sought after and his association with Bacon and Freud suggests a possible/probable excellent investment. </span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /> </span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">&nbsp;</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">In this painting the artist is paying homage to the noted German artist <strong>Gerhardt Richter (Born 1932)</strong>. During the late 1980s Richter filled scrapbooks with black and white photographs from newspapers and journals. These photographs became the basis for many of Richter&rsquo;s black and white paintings dealing with social and political issues. Gray has depicted a visitor to a Richter exhibition examining the artist&rsquo;s portrait of Gudrun Ensslin a founder member of the Baader-Meinhof gang. The painted portrait is a photo painting typical of Richter&rsquo;s style. Gray has imitated Richter&rsquo;s approach in using tones of black and white throughout the work except for application of colour on the gallery visitor&rsquo;s head.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">This shows Gray&rsquo;s versatility in successfully adopting the style of another artist.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;"><br /> </span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;"><strong>Frame Size Width</strong></span></span></span><strong><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;"> 24.5&quot; (63cm) </span></span></span></strong><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;"><strong>Height</strong> </span></span></span><strong><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">28.5 (72.5cm)</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;"><strong>Painting Sizw Width</strong></span></span></span><strong><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;"> 19.75&quot; (50cm) </span></span></span></strong><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;"><strong>Height</strong></span></span></span><strong><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;"> 23.75&quot; (60cm)</span></span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;"><strong>Item Sold<br /> </strong></span></span></span></p>