Morgan O'Driscoll Irish & International Art Auction 12th November 2018

I rish & I nternational A rt M onday 12 th N ovember 2018 at 6.00 pm 45 34 Frank McKelvey RHA RUA (1895-1974) Boys Fishing signed lower left oil on canvas 51 x 68.75cm (20 x 27in) Provenance: Private Collection €15,000-€20,000 (£13,392-£17,857) Frank McKelvey first attracted attention with his pictures of ‘old’ Belfast, and his landscape painting. In 1917, his artwork was accepted by the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA) when he was only 23. For the next fifty-five years he showed every year at the RHA. In 1919, he showed five paintings at the Water Colour Society of Ire- land exhibition. In 1921, McKelvey was elected a member of the Belfast Art Society. McKelvey was consid- ered one of the most successful Irish landscape painters of his time. He was gifted both with a superb technical fluency and an inquisitive mind so that painting to him represented a sense of discovery which, notwithstanding the often repetitive nature of some of his landscapes, imbued his work with a constant freshness.