Quality collection from well-known impressarios

THE art collection of the man who first recorded Rory Gallagher and Van Morrison forms the backbone of Whyte’s sale of Irish and British art at the RDS next Monday at 6pm.

The Mervyn and Pat Solomon Collection includes 11 oil paintings and six prints by Roderic O’Conor as well as work by Frank McKelvey, Dan O’Neill; Colin Middleton; Tom Carr; Cecile Maguire; Martin Mooney; Markey Robinson; Aloysius O’Kelly; Sandra Bell and Michael Leventis.

The Belfast-based Solomon family has been synonymous with the music production and distribution business in Ireland since 1924 through Solomon and Peres. Mervyn Solomon founded Emerald Music in 1964.