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MAKING MUSIC, 1988 Markey Robinson (1918-1999)
Signature: signed lower right; signed again and titled in pencil on reverse Medium: gouache on board Dimensions: 73.66 by 49.53cm., 29 by 19.5in. Provenance: Lincoln Gallery, Dublin; Private collection Exhibited: Lincoln Gallery, Dublin, 1988 Literature: Stairs, Susan, Markey Robinson A Life in Retrospective, Shorthall-Stairs Publications, Dublin, 1998, p.26 (illustrated); Stairs, Susan, The Irish Figurists and Figurative Painting in Irish Art, George Gallery, Dublin, 1990, p. 176 (illustrated); Mulready, Michael, Markey Robinson Maverick Spirit, Ben Madigan Publications, Belfast, 2003 (illustrated) Among the most penetrating, insightful and accomplished things in Markey's oeuvre are his clowns. They contain aspects of portraiture but are really a protracted study of the human presence - more usu... ually sad, heavy or bewildered than happy, whimsical or carefree. The eyes vary… dreamy, melancholy, averted, direct, vulnerable, defiant. At one extreme we meet a blank dislocated gaze, at the other a fixed stare. These are infectiously appealing works characterised by honesty of enquiry, directness of statement and humanity. Michael Mulready Maverick Spiri more