Lot 47: Noel Sheridan (1936-2006) WINDOW NO. 1, 1967

Noel Sheridan (1936-2006) WINDOW NO. 1, 1967 signed lower right; with original Dawson Gallery label on reverse acrylic-vinyl copolymer on canvas 20 by 25cm., 8 by 10in. Provenance: Dawson Gallery, Dublin; Private collection Exhibited: 'Noel Sheridan', Dawson Gallery, Dublin, 15-29 June, 1967, catalogue no. 14 Sheridan's exhibition at the Dawson Gallery in 1967 was comprised of twenty-two works, half of which took a humble chair as their subject; the other half focussed on windows. The windows series was painted at night in Sheridan's New York studio. He later wrote of this period: "In contrast to the uproar of 21st Street by day, the Hopper stillness of New York by night was uncanny. The building opposite was in total darkness except for one floor that left its lights on all the time. How not to paint a Hopper was the problem (Matisse save us)" (Noel Sheridan, On Reflection, Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2001, p. 31).