Lot 3: Edward Montgomery O'Rorke Dickey CBE HRUA HRCA

Edward Montgomery O'Rorke Dickey CBE HRUA HRCA (1894-1977) LOUGHISLANDREAVY, COUNTY DOWN, 1921 signed lower right; inscribed and dated on reverse oil on canvas 41 by 51cm., 16 by 20in. Provenance: Rodney Baker Antiques, Co. Armagh; Whence purchased by Dr McKee in 2000 Dickey lived in Antrim for a short while after World War I and painted landscapes there and in Counties Down and Donegal. At the time he was one of only a tiny minority of artists working in Northern Ireland who might be considered part of the wider European avant-garde. The present landscape, from this post-war period, depicts the Mourne Mountains in the distance. Dickey was the son of a Belfast solicitor and studied at the Westminster School of Art. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, as well as with the London Group, the New English Art Club and Leicester Galleries. Two paintings of his are in the collection of the Ulster Museum. Dickon Hall, Killinchy, Co. Down