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 95 79 David Crone (b.1937) Platform Party (1989) signed, titled and dated (19)’89 on reverse oil on canvas 142 x 127cm (56 x 50in) Provenance: Private Collection €3,000-€5,000 (£2,678-£4,464) David Crone, one of the finest Irish artists of our time, is a painter of multiple layers, fragments, reflections and uncertainties, all gathered together in one tricky surface, painting by painting. Appropriate for a Northern Irish artist, you might think, and indeed living with The Troubles contributed to his vision. But his relevance is more than historic, embracing the nature of experience, perception and cognition. Latterly his own garden has provided rich subject matter. In the 1980s the urban world fulfilled that role, as with the ambiguous, multi-facetted audience gathered here in Platform Party.