Lot 120: James MacIntyre RUA (b.1926)

James MacIntyre RUA (b.1926) MAN WITH PIPE, 1941

pen and ink

signed lower right; inscribed with title on reverse; also with inscribed Bell Gallery label on reverse

15 by 10cm., 6 by 4in.

Provenance:
Bell Gallery, Belfast; Private collection

Literature:
MacIntyre, James, 'Making My Mark, An Artist's Early Life', Blackstaff Press, Belfast, 2001, p.62 (illustrated)

This work depicts a character known to the artist from his youth, Sammy Gourley, described in his text, Making My Mark, as "...a gnarled, pipe smoking hardened countryman who literally owned nothing but the clothes he stood up in..."