# Playwright’s paintings offered for charity auction

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2018/07/24/playwrights-paintings-offered-charity-auction/
- Published: 2018-07-24T12:15:22+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**An auction of paintings belonging to the late Irish playwright Brian Friel and
his wife is expected to raise €100,000 for a homelessness charity.** The paintings
from the collection built up by Brian Friel and his wife Anne will be sold in September
in Dublin in a sale of Irish art. The auction will take place at Adam’s auctioneers
on St Stephen’s Green, and the funds raised will be donated to the Peter McVerry
Trust. “We very much appreciate Anne’s very generous support and kindness in donating
this collection of paintings,” Fr McVerry of the eponymous Trust told [the Irish Times](https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/homes-and-property/fine-art-antiques/brian-friel-art-sale-to-raise-100-000-for-homeless-1.3573840).“
Proceeds from the sale of the art will greatly help us to provide our services to
the growing numbers of people experiencing homelessness,” he added. Amongst the 
paintings is Basil Blackshaw’s _Three Sisters, _which was the image used on the 
cover of the programme of Friel’s translation of Chekhov’s play which premiered 
at Derry’s Guildhall in September 1981.  In 2016 the Trust had an income of €16 
million, of which €6.5 million came from fundraising. The charity raises 43% of 
its income from individuals and continues to add new donors from its annual insert
in the Irish Times.   _Image: Three Sisters (translated by Brian Friel) programme
cover, 1981. Includes Basil Blackshaw’s Three Sisters painting. Source: [Field Day](https://fieldday.ie/shop/theatre/three-sisters/)_

  

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