Gallery fails in bid to stop sheriff selling paintings

AN art gallery closely associated with the works of the late Markey Robinson has failed in a bid to stop a sheriff selling a number of paintings to meet a judgment debt.

Barrister John Donnelly told the High Court yesterday that the Apollo Gallery, at Dawson Street, Dublin, had sold a Markey Robinson and a Basil Blackshaw to Brian Carroll.

He said that in the deal for sale, the art gallery, through its directors Hugh Charlton and his son, Julian, had given Mr Carroll, of Cypress Lawn, Templeogue, Dublin, an undertaking that after a period of five years, it would buy back the paintings at an inflated price.