Henry George Gandy DSO OBE (1879-1950) TEMPLE OF THE TOOTH, KANDY, FROM A ROOM WINDOW IN QUEEN`S HOTEL (SRI LANKA) 1925 signed and dated lower right; inscribed with title on reverse watercolour over pencil; (unframed) 25.4 by 17.78cm., 10 by 7in. P Family of the artist "Henry George Gandy was born in 1879, in Northumberland, England, the son of a British Army officer. After being educated locally he followed the career path of his father and received a commission in the Royal Engineers in 1899 after which he saw service in South Africa during the Anglo-Boer War. His interest in art flourished during his army career which allowed him to visit many parts of the world and paint scenes still considered exotic to most Europeans at this time. In between the Boer and First World Wars Gandy served in Somaliland, Egypt and the Sudan where he became well known for his sketches and caricatures.The following paintings were mostly completed between 1924 and 1928 during which time Gandy was serving as a Lieutenant Colonel with the Royal Engineers in Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). The popularity and quality of his artwork was demonstrated by the fact that his scenes of Hong Kong, China and Singapore were reproduced in books and also on postcards by the famous publishers Raphael Tuck. His work serves as a record of cultures and ways of life which have now changed almost beyond recognition in many of the countries that he visited. H. G. Gandy retired from the army in 1932 after an illustrious career, during which he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order, Order of the British Empire, and Turkish Order of the Mejidie. He died at Hampshire, England in 1950 at the age of 70.
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Henry George Gandy DSO OBE (1879-1950) THE LADIES OF MINICOY signed lower right; inscribed in margin with title watercolour over pencil; (unframed) 25.4 by 15.24cm., 10 by 6in. P Family of the artist "Inscribed by artist "Between Maldive-Laccadive" Islands". Henry George Gandy was born in 1879, in Northumberland, England, the son of a British Army officer. After being educated locally he followed the career path of his father and received a commission in the Royal Engineers in 1899 after which he saw service in South Africa during the Anglo-Boer War. His interest in art flourished during his army career which allowed him to visit many parts of the world and paint scenes still considered exotic to most Europeans at this time. In between the Boer and First World Wars Gandy served in Somaliland, Egypt and the Sudan where he became well known for his sketches and caricatures.The following paintings were mostly completed between 1924 and 1928 during which time Gandy was serving as a Lieutenant Colonel with the Royal Engineers in Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). The popularity and quality of his artwork was demonstrated by the fact that his scenes of Hong Kong, China and Singapore were reproduced in books and also on postcards by the famous publishers Raphael Tuck. His work serves as a record of cultures and ways of life which have now changed almost beyond recognition in many of the countries that he visited. H. G. Gandy retired from the army in 1932 after an illustrious career, during which he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order, Order of the British Empire, and Turkish Order of the Mejidie. He died at Hampshire, England in 1950 at the age of 70.
Henry George Gandy DSO OBE (1879-1950) ADAM`S PEAK CEYLON (SRI LANKA) FROM YARTMORE ESTATE signed lower right; inscribed with title on reverse watercolour over pencil; (unframed) 43.18 by 25.4cm., 17 by 10in. P Family of the artist "Inscribed on reverse "F E Jolliff Exhib. 1926 (of his background) Mr L Waldock (for Miss W. Home); March 1928 Mr Greenshields."Henry George Gandy was born in 1879, in Northumberland, England, the son of a British Army officer. After being educated locally he followed the career path of his father and received a commission in the Royal Engineers in 1899 after which he saw service in South Africa during the Anglo-Boer War. His interest in art flourished during his army career which allowed him to visit many parts of the world and paint scenes still considered exotic to most Europeans at this time. In between the Boer and First World Wars Gandy served in Somaliland, Egypt and the Sudan where he became well known for his sketches and caricatures.The following paintings were mostly completed between 1924 and 1928 during which time Gandy was serving as a Lieutenant Colonel with the Royal Engineers in Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). The popularity and quality of his artwork was demonstrated by the fact that his scenes of Hong Kong, China and Singapore were reproduced in books and also on postcards by the famous publishers Raphael Tuck. His work serves as a record of cultures and ways of life which have now changed almost beyond recognition in many of the countries that he visited. H. G. Gandy retired from the army in 1932 after an illustrious career, during which he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order, Order of the British Empire, and Turkish Order of the Mejidie. He died at Hampshire, England in 1950 at the age of 70.
Henry George Gandy DSO OBE (1879-1950) SIGIRI FROM REST HOUSE, CEYLON (SRI LANKA) signed lower right watercolour; (unframed) 35.56 by 25.4cm., 14 by 10in. P Family of the artist "Inscribed by the artist, "Mr Bagdlo, Exhibition 1927".Henry George Gandy was born in 1879, in Northumberland, England, the son of a British Army officer. After being educated locally he followed the career path of his father and received a commission in the Royal Engineers in 1899 after which he saw service in South Africa during the Anglo-Boer War. His interest in art flourished during his army career which allowed him to visit many parts of the world and paint scenes still considered exotic to most Europeans at this time. In between the Boer and First World Wars Gandy served in Somaliland, Egypt and the Sudan where he became well known for his sketches and caricatures.The following paintings were mostly completed between 1924 and 1928 during which time Gandy was serving as a Lieutenant Colonel with the Royal Engineers in Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). The popularity and quality of his artwork was demonstrated by the fact that his scenes of Hong Kong, China and Singapore were reproduced in books and also on postcards by the famous publishers Raphael Tuck. His work serves as a record of cultures and ways of life which have now changed almost beyond recognition in many of the countries that he visited. H. G. Gandy retired from the army in 1932 after an illustrious career, during which he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order, Order of the British Empire, and Turkish Order of the Mejidie. He died at Hampshire, England in 1950 at the age of 70.
Henry George Gandy DSO OBE (1879-1950) VIEW OF SHIVE DAGOR PAGODA FROM POINT NEAR THE BOAT CLUB, BURMA signed lower left watercolour; (unframed) 35.56 by 25.4cm., 14 by 10in. P Family of the artist "Henry George Gandy was born in 1879, in Northumberland, England, the son of a British Army officer. After being educated locally he followed the career path of his father and received a commission in the Royal Engineers in 1899 after which he saw service in South Africa during the Anglo-Boer War. His interest in art flourished during his army career which allowed him to visit many parts of the world and paint scenes still considered exotic to most Europeans at this time. In between the Boer and First World Wars Gandy served in Somaliland, Egypt and the Sudan where he became well known for his sketches and caricatures.The following paintings were mostly completed between 1924 and 1928 during which time Gandy was serving as a Lieutenant Colonel with the Royal Engineers in Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). The popularity and quality of his artwork was demonstrated by the fact that his scenes of Hong Kong, China and Singapore were reproduced in books and also on postcards by the famous publishers Raphael Tuck. His work serves as a record of cultures and ways of life which have now changed almost beyond recognition in many of the countries that he visited. H. G. Gandy retired from the army in 1932 after an illustrious career, during which he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order, Order of the British Empire, and Turkish Order of the Mejidie. He died at Hampshire, England in 1950 at the age of 70.
Henry George Gandy DSO OBE (1879-1950) COASTAL SCENE, CEYLON (SRI LANKA) signed lower right; inscribed with title on reverse watercolour; (unframed) 19.05 by 33.02cm., 7.5 by 13in. L Family of the artist "Henry George Gandy was born in 1879, in Northumberland, England, the son of a British Army officer. After being educated locally he followed the career path of his father and received a commission in the Royal Engineers in 1899 after which he saw service in South Africa during the Anglo-Boer War. His interest in art flourished during his army career which allowed him to visit many parts of the world and paint scenes still considered exotic to most Europeans at this time. In between the Boer and First World Wars Gandy served in Somaliland, Egypt and the Sudan where he became well known for his sketches and caricatures.The following paintings were mostly completed between 1924 and 1928 during which time Gandy was serving as a Lieutenant Colonel with the Royal Engineers in Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). The popularity and quality of his artwork was demonstrated by the fact that his scenes of Hong Kong, China and Singapore were reproduced in books and also on postcards by the famous publishers Raphael Tuck. His work serves as a record of cultures and ways of life which have now changed almost beyond recognition in many of the countries that he visited. H. G. Gandy retired from the army in 1932 after an illustrious career, during which he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order, Order of the British Empire, and Turkish Order of the Mejidie. He died at Hampshire, England in 1950 at the age of 70.
Ernest Columba Hayes RHA (1914-1978) SEPTEMBER WIND, 1950s oil on canvas signed and indistinctly dated lower left; with title and catalogue no. [288] on reverse; also with typed exhibition label preserved on reverse 76.2 by 60.96cm., 30 by 24in. P Estate of Hildegard Hayes, the artist`s wife "A Dublin born artist, Hayes was a student at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art in the years 1931 to 1934, where he studied under Seán Keating and had his first painting accepted by the Royal Hibernian Academy while still a student there. He went on to regularly show at the RHA for the rest of his life. He joined the Dublin Sketching Club in 1935 later becoming the clubs secretary. He had his first one-man show at the Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin in 1937. In 1942 he was elected Associte of the RHA and three years later in 1945 became a full member. That same year he married Irma Verona Maguire (née Stranger-Jones) a pianist and divorcée in London. From 1946 to 1956 he was President of the Dublin Sketching Club after this period he relocated to London an in 1958 he completed a large portrait of the Duchess of Gloucester, now in St Botolph’s Hall, which was exhibited in the Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ Exhibition at the Royal Institute Galleries. Irma died in Dublin in 1959 after battling with cancer. Later that year Hayes met Hildegard von Hob in Gelting, Germany whom he married in 1960. From this point until 1977 he travelled extensively throughout Europe working in Italy, France and Germany.A year after his death the RHA commemorated Hayes in a memorial section. Thirteen years later, in 1992 a memorial exhibition was held at the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art some examples from this exhibition are included in this collection. Hayes made his home in County Wicklow from the mid-1960s.Anne Crookshank highlighted his love of the land in the exhibition catalogue for Hayes’ 1992 Hugh Lane exhibition, “We can be proud with Ernest Hayes of our lovely East coast as well as of the West which so many of his contemporaries preferred. He is a painter of everyday people and everyday places but he see them and makes us see them as poetry.”
Ernest Columba Hayes RHA (1914-1978) YOUNG TREE, 1977 oil on canvas signed and dated lower right; with title on reverse; with typed exhibition labels also on reverse 35.56 by 27.94cm., 14 by 11in. P Estate of Hildegard Hayes, the artist`s wife "A Dublin born artist, Hayes was a student at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art in the years 1931 to 1934, where he studied under Seán Keating and had his first painting accepted by the Royal Hibernian Academy while still a student there. He went on to regularly show at the RHA for the rest of his life. He joined the Dublin Sketching Club in 1935 later becoming the clubs secretary. He had his first one-man show at the Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin in 1937. In 1942 he was elected Associte of the RHA and three years later in 1945 became a full member. That same year he married Irma Verona Maguire (née Stranger-Jones) a pianist and divorcée in London. From 1946 to 1956 he was President of the Dublin Sketching Club after this period he relocated to London an in 1958 he completed a large portrait of the Duchess of Gloucester, now in St Botolph’s Hall, which was exhibited in the Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ Exhibition at the Royal Institute Galleries. Irma died in Dublin in 1959 after battling with cancer. Later that year Hayes met Hildegard von Hob in Gelting, Germany whom he married in 1960. From this point until 1977 he travelled extensively throughout Europe working in Italy, France and Germany.A year after his death the RHA commemorated Hayes in a memorial section. Thirteen years later, in 1992 a memorial exhibition was held at the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art some examples from this exhibition are included in this collection. Hayes made his home in County Wicklow from the mid-1960s.Anne Crookshank highlighted his love of the land in the exhibition catalogue for Hayes’ 1992 Hugh Lane exhibition, “We can be proud with Ernest Hayes of our lovely East coast as well as of the West which so many of his contemporaries preferred. He is a painter of everyday people and everyday places but he see them and makes us see them as poetry.”
Ernest Columba Hayes RHA (1914-1978) GARDEN, 1963 oil on canvas board signed and dated lower left 48.26 by 40.64cm., 19 by 16in. P Estate of Hildegard Hayes, the artist`s wife "A Dublin born artist, Hayes was a student at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art in the years 1931 to 1934, where he studied under Seán Keating and had his first painting accepted by the Royal Hibernian Academy while still a student there. He went on to regularly show at the RHA for the rest of his life. He joined the Dublin Sketching Club in 1935 later becoming the clubs secretary. He had his first one-man show at the Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin in 1937. In 1942 he was elected Associte of the RHA and three years later in 1945 became a full member. That same year he married Irma Verona Maguire (née Stranger-Jones) a pianist and divorcée in London. From 1946 to 1956 he was President of the Dublin Sketching Club after this period he relocated to London an in 1958 he completed a large portrait of the Duchess of Gloucester, now in St Botolph’s Hall, which was exhibited in the Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ Exhibition at the Royal Institute Galleries. Irma died in Dublin in 1959 after battling with cancer. Later that year Hayes met Hildegard von Hob in Gelting, Germany whom he married in 1960. From this point until 1977 he travelled extensively throughout Europe working in Italy, France and Germany.A year after his death the RHA commemorated Hayes in a memorial section. Thirteen years later, in 1992 a memorial exhibition was held at the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art some examples from this exhibition are included in this collection. Hayes made his home in County Wicklow from the mid-1960s.Anne Crookshank highlighted his love of the land in the exhibition catalogue for Hayes’ 1992 Hugh Lane exhibition, “We can be proud with Ernest Hayes of our lovely East coast as well as of the West which so many of his contemporaries preferred. He is a painter of everyday people and everyday places but he see them and makes us see them as poetry.”
Ernest Columba Hayes RHA (1914-1978) LANDSCAPE WITH PINK FLOWERS, 1964 oil on canvas board signed and dated lower right; with another work on reverse 22.86 by 30.48cm., 9 by 12in. L Estate of Hildegard Hayes, the artist`s wife "A Dublin born artist, Hayes was a student at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art in the years 1931 to 1934, where he studied under Seán Keating and had his first painting accepted by the Royal Hibernian Academy while still a student there. He went on to regularly show at the RHA for the rest of his life. He joined the Dublin Sketching Club in 1935 later becoming the clubs secretary. He had his first one-man show at the Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin in 1937. In 1942 he was elected Associte of the RHA and three years later in 1945 became a full member. That same year he married Irma Verona Maguire (née Stranger-Jones) a pianist and divorcée in London. From 1946 to 1956 he was President of the Dublin Sketching Club after this period he relocated to London an in 1958 he completed a large portrait of the Duchess of Gloucester, now in St Botolph’s Hall, which was exhibited in the Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ Exhibition at the Royal Institute Galleries. Irma died in Dublin in 1959 after battling with cancer. Later that year Hayes met Hildegard von Hob in Gelting, Germany whom he married in 1960. From this point until 1977 he travelled extensively throughout Europe working in Italy, France and Germany.A year after his death the RHA commemorated Hayes in a memorial section. Thirteen years later, in 1992 a memorial exhibition was held at the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art some examples from this exhibition are included in this collection. Hayes made his home in County Wicklow from the mid-1960s.Anne Crookshank highlighted his love of the land in the exhibition catalogue for Hayes’ 1992 Hugh Lane exhibition, “We can be proud with Ernest Hayes of our lovely East coast as well as of the West which so many of his contemporaries preferred. He is a painter of everyday people and everyday places but he see them and makes us see them as poetry.”
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Ernest Columba Hayes RHA (1914-1978) STILL LIFE, 1960 oil on board signed and dated [26 October] lower right; with sketch and inscriptions on reverse 24.13 by 34.29cm., 9.5 by 13.5in. L Estate of Hildegard Hayes, the artist`s wife "A Dublin born artist, Hayes was a student at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art in the years 1931 to 1934, where he studied under Seán Keating and had his first painting accepted by the Royal Hibernian Academy while still a student there. He went on to regularly show at the RHA for the rest of his life. He joined the Dublin Sketching Club in 1935 later becoming the clubs secretary. He had his first one-man show at the Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin in 1937. In 1942 he was elected Associte of the RHA and three years later in 1945 became a full member. That same year he married Irma Verona Maguire (née Stranger-Jones) a pianist and divorcée in London. From 1946 to 1956 he was President of the Dublin Sketching Club after this period he relocated to London an in 1958 he completed a large portrait of the Duchess of Gloucester, now in St Botolph’s Hall, which was exhibited in the Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ Exhibition at the Royal Institute Galleries. Irma died in Dublin in 1959 after battling with cancer. Later that year Hayes met Hildegard von Hob in Gelting, Germany whom he married in 1960. From this point until 1977 he travelled extensively throughout Europe working in Italy, France and Germany.A year after his death the RHA commemorated Hayes in a memorial section. Thirteen years later, in 1992 a memorial exhibition was held at the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art some examples from this exhibition are included in this collection. Hayes made his home in County Wicklow from the mid-1960s.Anne Crookshank highlighted his love of the land in the exhibition catalogue for Hayes’ 1992 Hugh Lane exhibition, “We can be proud with Ernest Hayes of our lovely East coast as well as of the West which so many of his contemporaries preferred. He is a painter of everyday people and everyday places but he see them and makes us see them as poetry.”
Ernest Columba Hayes RHA (1914-1978) STUDY FOR "THE BLUE WINDOW", 1961 oil on board signed lower right; with sketch of cottages on reverse 20.955 by 15.24cm., 8.25 by 6in. P Estate of Hildegard Hayes, the artist`s wife "The finished oil for this study was exhibited in the Dublin Sketching Club, 1961, no. 106, at the RHA in 1979, Memorial Panel, no. 103 and at the Hugh Lane exhibition in 1992 (illustrated p. 58 of catalogue).A Dublin born artist, Hayes was a student at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art in the years 1931 to 1934, where he studied under Seán Keating and had his first painting accepted by the Royal Hibernian Academy while still a student there. He went on to regularly show at the RHA for the rest of his life. He joined the Dublin Sketching Club in 1935 later becoming the clubs secretary. He had his first one-man show at the Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin in 1937. In 1942 he was elected Associte of the RHA and three years later in 1945 became a full member. That same year he married Irma Verona Maguire (née Stranger-Jones) a pianist and divorcée in London. From 1946 to 1956 he was President of the Dublin Sketching Club after this period he relocated to London an in 1958 he completed a large portrait of the Duchess of Gloucester, now in St Botolph’s Hall, which was exhibited in the Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ Exhibition at the Royal Institute Galleries. Irma died in Dublin in 1959 after battling with cancer. Later that year Hayes met Hildegard von Hob in Gelting, Germany whom he married in 1960. From this point until 1977 he travelled extensively throughout Europe working in Italy, France and Germany.A year after his death the RHA commemorated Hayes in a memorial section. Thirteen years later, in 1992 a memorial exhibition was held at the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art some examples from this exhibition are included in this collection. Hayes made his home in County Wicklow from the mid-1960s.Anne Crookshank highlighted his love of the land in the exhibition catalogue for Hayes’ 1992 Hugh Lane exhibition, “We can be proud with Ernest Hayes of our lovely East coast as well as of the West which so many of his contemporaries preferred. He is a painter of everyday people and everyday places but he see them and makes us see them as poetry.”
Ernest Columba Hayes RHA (1914-1978) LANDSCAPE WITH HAYSTACKS oil on canvas signed lower right 25.4 by 35.56cm., 10 by 14in. L Estate of Hildegard Hayes, the artist`s wife "A Dublin born artist, Hayes was a student at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art in the years 1931 to 1934, where he studied under Seán Keating and had his first painting accepted by the Royal Hibernian Academy while still a student there. He went on to regularly show at the RHA for the rest of his life. He joined the Dublin Sketching Club in 1935 later becoming the clubs secretary. He had his first one-man show at the Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin in 1937. In 1942 he was elected Associte of the RHA and three years later in 1945 became a full member. That same year he married Irma Verona Maguire (née Stranger-Jones) a pianist and divorcée in London. From 1946 to 1956 he was President of the Dublin Sketching Club after this period he relocated to London an in 1958 he completed a large portrait of the Duchess of Gloucester, now in St Botolph’s Hall, which was exhibited in the Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ Exhibition at the Royal Institute Galleries. Irma died in Dublin in 1959 after battling with cancer. Later that year Hayes met Hildegard von Hob in Gelting, Germany whom he married in 1960. From this point until 1977 he travelled extensively throughout Europe working in Italy, France and Germany.A year after his death the RHA commemorated Hayes in a memorial section. Thirteen years later, in 1992 a memorial exhibition was held at the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art some examples from this exhibition are included in this collection. Hayes made his home in County Wicklow from the mid-1960s.Anne Crookshank highlighted his love of the land in the exhibition catalogue for Hayes’ 1992 Hugh Lane exhibition, “We can be proud with Ernest Hayes of our lovely East coast as well as of the West which so many of his contemporaries preferred. He is a painter of everyday people and everyday places but he see them and makes us see them as poetry.”
Ernest Columba Hayes RHA (1914-1978) NORMA, ITALY, 1969 watercolour signed and dated lower right; with inscribed and typed exhibition labels on reverse; catalogue no. 403 23.495 by 32.385cm., 9.25 by 12.75in. L Estate of Hildegard Hayes, the artist`s wife "Combridges Fine Art, Dublin, c.1960; exhibited in May 1978 (5 months before the artist`s death); (catalogue untraced)" "A Dublin born artist, Hayes was a student at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art in the years 1931 to 1934, where he studied under Seán Keating and had his first painting accepted by the Royal Hibernian Academy while still a student there. He went on to regularly show at the RHA for the rest of his life. He joined the Dublin Sketching Club in 1935 later becoming the clubs secretary. He had his first one-man show at the Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin in 1937. In 1942 he was elected Associte of the RHA and three years later in 1945 became a full member. That same year he married Irma Verona Maguire (née Stranger-Jones) a pianist and divorcée in London. From 1946 to 1956 he was President of the Dublin Sketching Club after this period he relocated to London an in 1958 he completed a large portrait of the Duchess of Gloucester, now in St Botolph’s Hall, which was exhibited in the Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ Exhibition at the Royal Institute Galleries. Irma died in Dublin in 1959 after battling with cancer. Later that year Hayes met Hildegard von Hob in Gelting, Germany whom he married in 1960. From this point until 1977 he travelled extensively throughout Europe working in Italy, France and Germany.A year after his death the RHA commemorated Hayes in a memorial section. Thirteen years later, in 1992 a memorial exhibition was held at the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art some examples from this exhibition are included in this collection. Hayes made his home in County Wicklow from the mid-1960s.Anne Crookshank highlighted his love of the land in the exhibition catalogue for Hayes’ 1992 Hugh Lane exhibition, “We can be proud with Ernest Hayes of our lovely East coast as well as of the West which so many of his contemporaries preferred. He is a painter of everyday people and everyday places but he see them and makes us see them as poetry.”
Ernest Columba Hayes RHA (1914-1978) STANDING WOMAN IN RED SHAWL AND TWO OTHER FIGURE STUDIES IN OIL oil on canvas; (unstretched) the first indistinctly inscribed in the margin upper right 58.42 by 30.48cm., 23 by 12in. P Estate of Hildegard Hayes, the artist`s wife "Dimensions of other figure studies, 9.5 by 9in. approx. (3 works total).A Dublin born artist, Hayes was a student at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art in the years 1931 to 1934, where he studied under Seán Keating and had his first painting accepted by the Royal Hibernian Academy while still a student there. He went on to regularly show at the RHA for the rest of his life. He joined the Dublin Sketching Club in 1935 later becoming the clubs secretary. He had his first one-man show at the Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin in 1937. In 1942 he was elected Associte of the RHA and three years later in 1945 became a full member. That same year he married Irma Verona Maguire (née Stranger-Jones) a pianist and divorcée in London. From 1946 to 1956 he was President of the Dublin Sketching Club after this period he relocated to London an in 1958 he completed a large portrait of the Duchess of Gloucester, now in St Botolph’s Hall, which was exhibited in the Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ Exhibition at the Royal Institute Galleries. Irma died in Dublin in 1959 after battling with cancer. Later that year Hayes met Hildegard von Hob in Gelting, Germany whom he married in 1960. From this point until 1977 he travelled extensively throughout Europe working in Italy, France and Germany.A year after his death the RHA commemorated Hayes in a memorial section. Thirteen years later, in 1992 a memorial exhibition was held at the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art some examples from this exhibition are included in this collection. Hayes made his home in County Wicklow from the mid-1960s.Anne Crookshank highlighted his love of the land in the exhibition catalogue for Hayes’ 1992 Hugh Lane exhibition, “We can be proud with Ernest Hayes of our lovely East coast as well as of the West which so many of his contemporaries preferred. He is a painter of everyday people and everyday places but he see them and makes us see them as poetry.”
Ernest Columba Hayes RHA (1914-1978) NUDE, 1938 oil on canvas; (unstretched) signed and dated lower left 55.88 by 50.8cm., 22 by 20in. P Estate of Hildegard Hayes, the artist`s wife "A Dublin born artist, Hayes was a student at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art in the years 1931 to 1934, where he studied under Seán Keating and had his first painting accepted by the Royal Hibernian Academy while still a student there. He went on to regularly show at the RHA for the rest of his life. He joined the Dublin Sketching Club in 1935 later becoming the clubs secretary. He had his first one-man show at the Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin in 1937. In 1942 he was elected Associte of the RHA and three years later in 1945 became a full member. That same year he married Irma Verona Maguire (née Stranger-Jones) a pianist and divorcée in London. From 1946 to 1956 he was President of the Dublin Sketching Club after this period he relocated to London an in 1958 he completed a large portrait of the Duchess of Gloucester, now in St Botolph’s Hall, which was exhibited in the Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ Exhibition at the Royal Institute Galleries. Irma died in Dublin in 1959 after battling with cancer. Later that year Hayes met Hildegard von Hob in Gelting, Germany whom he married in 1960. From this point until 1977 he travelled extensively throughout Europe working in Italy, France and Germany.A year after his death the RHA commemorated Hayes in a memorial section. Thirteen years later, in 1992 a memorial exhibition was held at the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art some examples from this exhibition are included in this collection. Hayes made his home in County Wicklow from the mid-1960s.Anne Crookshank highlighted his love of the land in the exhibition catalogue for Hayes’ 1992 Hugh Lane exhibition, “We can be proud with Ernest Hayes of our lovely East coast as well as of the West which so many of his contemporaries preferred. He is a painter of everyday people and everyday places but he see them and makes us see them as poetry.”
Ernest Columba Hayes RHA (1914-1978) STILL LIFE WITH JAMESON BOTTLE and A COLLECTION OF SKETCHES oil on canvas; (unstretched); (1); oil on board; (4); pencil on board; (1) variously inscribed on reverse 43.18 by 45.085cm., 17 by 17.75in. L Estate of Hildegard Hayes, the artist`s wife "Sketches include, landscapes one of which is a sketch for The Windmill, 1962. Work in pencil depicts the artist`s wife (squared up for transfer), another inscribed "Sketch by George Wycliffe Yeats (Dentist) Brilliant Amateur. After 1930 I think".A Dublin born artist, Hayes was a student at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art in the years 1931 to 1934, where he studied under Seán Keating and had his first painting accepted by the Royal Hibernian Academy while still a student there. He went on to regularly show at the RHA for the rest of his life. He joined the Dublin Sketching Club in 1935 later becoming the clubs secretary. He had his first one-man show at the Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin in 1937. In 1942 he was elected Associte of the RHA and three years later in 1945 became a full member. That same year he married Irma Verona Maguire (née Stranger-Jones) a pianist and divorcée in London. From 1946 to 1956 he was President of the Dublin Sketching Club after this period he relocated to London an in 1958 he completed a large portrait of the Duchess of Gloucester, now in St Botolph’s Hall, which was exhibited in the Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ Exhibition at the Royal Institute Galleries. Irma died in Dublin in 1959 after battling with cancer. Later that year Hayes met Hildegard von Hob in Gelting, Germany whom he married in 1960. From this point until 1977 he travelled extensively throughout Europe working in Italy, France and Germany.A year after his death the RHA commemorated Hayes in a memorial section. Thirteen years later, in 1992 a memorial exhibition was held at the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art some examples from this exhibition are included in this collection. Hayes made his home in County Wicklow from the mid-1960s.Anne Crookshank highlighted his love of the land in the exhibition catalogue for Hayes’ 1992 Hugh Lane exhibition, “We can be proud with Ernest Hayes of our lovely East coast as well as of the West which so many of his contemporaries preferred. He is a painter of everyday people and everyday places but he see them and makes us see them as poetry.”
Ernest Columba Hayes RHA (1914-1978) STUDY FOR "THE EVENING HOUR", 1975 pencil variously inscribed in the margin; 23.495 by 31.75cm., 9.25 by 12.5in. L Estate of Hildegard Hayes, the artist`s wife Ernest Hayes the Wild Garden, Paintings and Drawings from a Mountain Field in Ireland, Privately published, Ormond Printing, Dublin, 1984 (illustrated) "With a copy of folios from the publication affixed on reverse.A Dublin born artist, Hayes was a student at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art in the years 1931 to 1934, where he studied under Seán Keating and had his first painting accepted by the Royal Hibernian Academy while still a student there. He went on to regularly show at the RHA for the rest of his life. He joined the Dublin Sketching Club in 1935 later becoming the clubs secretary. He had his first one-man show at the Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin in 1937. In 1942 he was elected Associte of the RHA and three years later in 1945 became a full member. That same year he married Irma Verona Maguire (née Stranger-Jones) a pianist and divorcée in London. From 1946 to 1956 he was President of the Dublin Sketching Club after this period he relocated to London an in 1958 he completed a large portrait of the Duchess of Gloucester, now in St Botolph’s Hall, which was exhibited in the Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ Exhibition at the Royal Institute Galleries. Irma died in Dublin in 1959 after battling with cancer. Later that year Hayes met Hildegard von Hob in Gelting, Germany whom he married in 1960. From this point until 1977 he travelled extensively throughout Europe working in Italy, France and Germany.A year after his death the RHA commemorated Hayes in a memorial section. Thirteen years later, in 1992 a memorial exhibition was held at the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art some examples from this exhibition are included in this collection. Hayes made his home in County Wicklow from the mid-1960s.Anne Crookshank highlighted his love of the land in the exhibition catalogue for Hayes’ 1992 Hugh Lane exhibition, “We can be proud with Ernest Hayes of our lovely East coast as well as of the West which so many of his contemporaries preferred. He is a painter of everyday people and everyday places but he see them and makes us see them as poetry.”
Ernest Columba Hayes RHA (1914-1978) STUDY FOR "SLAVES IN THE FORUM", c.1940 and A COLLECTION OF EARLY FIGURE DRAWINGS watercolour; (1); pencil and chalk on tinted paper; (10); (some double-sided); (all unframed) variously inscribed 20.32 by 30.48cm., 8 by 12in. L Estate of Hildegard Hayes, the artist`s wife "Hayes had a keen interest in classical subject matter evidenced in several canvases exhibited circa 1940 including, The Coliseum and Slaves in the Forum (1940) both later shown at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition at Burlington House, London.A Dublin born artist, Hayes was a student at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art in the years 1931 to 1934, where he studied under Seán Keating and had his first painting accepted by the Royal Hibernian Academy while still a student there. He went on to regularly show at the RHA for the rest of his life. He joined the Dublin Sketching Club in 1935 later becoming the clubs secretary. He had his first one-man show at the Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin in 1937. In 1942 he was elected Associte of the RHA and three years later in 1945 became a full member. That same year he married Irma Verona Maguire (née Stranger-Jones) a pianist and divorcée in London. From 1946 to 1956 he was President of the Dublin Sketching Club after this period he relocated to London an in 1958 he completed a large portrait of the Duchess of Gloucester, now in St Botolph’s Hall, which was exhibited in the Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ Exhibition at the Royal Institute Galleries. Irma died in Dublin in 1959 after battling with cancer. Later that year Hayes met Hildegard von Hob in Gelting, Germany whom he married in 1960. From this point until 1977 he travelled extensively throughout Europe working in Italy, France and Germany.A year after his death the RHA commemorated Hayes in a memorial section. Thirteen years later, in 1992 a memorial exhibition was held at the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art some examples from this exhibition are included in this collection. Hayes made his home in County Wicklow from the mid-1960s.Anne Crookshank highlighted his love of the land in the exhibition catalogue for Hayes’ 1992 Hugh Lane exhibition, “We can be proud with Ernest Hayes of our lovely East coast as well as of the West which so many of his contemporaries preferred. He is a painter of everyday people and everyday places but he see them and makes us see them as poetry.”
Ernest Columba Hayes RHA (1914-1978) COLLECTION OF PORTRAIT SKETCHES pencil; (7); (all unframed) variously signed, inscribed and dated 40.64 by 30.48cm., 16 by 12in. P Estate of Hildegard Hayes, the artist`s wife "Two of the portraits in the collection are dated March and November 1937 and one 1936. All but one depict female sitters, one of which is Hildegard Hayes, the artist`s wife, inscribed [5 May `60 Connemara] on reverse. A sketch of Eithne Murphy is also included and possibly a Miss Elizabeth Hayes. Average size of portraits given.A Dublin born artist, Hayes was a student at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art in the years 1931 to 1934, where he studied under Seán Keating and had his first painting accepted by the Royal Hibernian Academy while still a student there. He went on to regularly show at the RHA for the rest of his life. He joined the Dublin Sketching Club in 1935 later becoming the clubs secretary. He had his first one-man show at the Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin in 1937. In 1942 he was elected Associte of the RHA and three years later in 1945 became a full member. That same year he married Irma Verona Maguire (née Stranger-Jones) a pianist and divorcée in London. From 1946 to 1956 he was President of the Dublin Sketching Club after this period he relocated to London an in 1958 he completed a large portrait of the Duchess of Gloucester, now in St Botolph’s Hall, which was exhibited in the Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ Exhibition at the Royal Institute Galleries. Irma died in Dublin in 1959 after battling with cancer. Later that year Hayes met Hildegard von Hob in Gelting, Germany whom he married in 1960. From this point until 1977 he travelled extensively throughout Europe working in Italy, France and Germany.A year after his death the RHA commemorated Hayes in a memorial section. Thirteen years later, in 1992 a memorial exhibition was held at the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art some examples from this exhibition are included in this collection. Hayes made his home in County Wicklow from the mid-1960s.Anne Crookshank highlighted his love of the land in the exhibition catalogue for Hayes’ 1992 Hugh Lane exhibition, “We can be proud with Ernest Hayes of our lovely East coast as well as of the West which so many of his contemporaries preferred. He is a painter of everyday people and everyday places but he see them and makes us see them as poetry.”
Ernest Columba Hayes RHA (1914-1978) COLLECTION OF 54 SKETCHES FROM LATE 1940s - LATE 1960s watercolour; (5); pencil; (31); biro; (14); charcoal (4); (all unframed, contained in sketching folder) variously signed, inscribed, titled and dated 43.815 by 33.655cm., 17.25 by 13.25in. P Estate of Hildegard Hayes, the artist`s wife "An eclectic collection of sketches from the late 1940s-1960s. Themes include, landscapes [Ireland and Italy], still life studies, a portrait of the artist`s first wife [Irma], animal and figure studies in an array of medium. All contained in the artist`s wife [Hildeegard`s] portfolio case.A Dublin born artist, Hayes was a student at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art in the years 1931 to 1934, where he studied under Seán Keating and had his first painting accepted by the Royal Hibernian Academy while still a student there. He went on to regularly show at the RHA for the rest of his life. He joined the Dublin Sketching Club in 1935 later becoming the clubs secretary. He had his first one-man show at the Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin in 1937. In 1942 he was elected Associte of the RHA and three years later in 1945 became a full member. That same year he married Irma Verona Maguire (née Stranger-Jones) a pianist and divorcée in London. From 1946 to 1956 he was President of the Dublin Sketching Club after this period he relocated to London an in 1958 he completed a large portrait of the Duchess of Gloucester, now in St Botolph’s Hall, which was exhibited in the Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ Exhibition at the Royal Institute Galleries. Irma died in Dublin in 1959 after battling with cancer. Later that year Hayes met Hildegard von Hob in Gelting, Germany whom he married in 1960. From this point until 1977 he travelled extensively throughout Europe working in Italy, France and Germany.A year after his death the RHA commemorated Hayes in a memorial section. Thirteen years later, in 1992 a memorial exhibition was held at the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art some examples from this exhibition are included in this collection. Hayes made his home in County Wicklow from the mid-1960s.Anne Crookshank highlighted his love of the land in the exhibition catalogue for Hayes’ 1992 Hugh Lane exhibition, “We can be proud with Ernest Hayes of our lovely East coast as well as of the West which so many of his contemporaries preferred. He is a painter of everyday people and everyday places but he see them and makes us see them as poetry.”
Ernest Columba Hayes RHA (1914-1978) COLLECTION OF LANDSCAPE, MARINE & STILL LIFE SKETCHES oil on canvas (unstretched); (3); watercolour; (4) variously signed, inscribed and dated 35.56 by 40.64cm., 14 by 16in. L Estate of Hildegard Hayes, the artist`s wife "Among the sketches include early pastoral landscapes (1935-36), a still life sketch from the artist`s studio, a maritime sketch of a tall ship (1935), and a "rough sketch only (for professional ref.)" dated 20 December 1946, also includes notes on reverse relating to wind and sun direction at 1.30pm on the day of execution.A Dublin born artist, Hayes was a student at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art in the years 1931 to 1934, where he studied under Seán Keating and had his first painting accepted by the Royal Hibernian Academy while still a student there. He went on to regularly show at the RHA for the rest of his life. He joined the Dublin Sketching Club in 1935 later becoming the clubs secretary. He had his first one-man show at the Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin in 1937. In 1942 he was elected Associte of the RHA and three years later in 1945 became a full member. That same year he married Irma Verona Maguire (née Stranger-Jones) a pianist and divorcée in London. From 1946 to 1956 he was President of the Dublin Sketching Club after this period he relocated to London an in 1958 he completed a large portrait of the Duchess of Gloucester, now in St Botolph’s Hall, which was exhibited in the Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ Exhibition at the Royal Institute Galleries. Irma died in Dublin in 1959 after battling with cancer. Later that year Hayes met Hildegard von Hob in Gelting, Germany whom he married in 1960. From this point until 1977 he travelled extensively throughout Europe working in Italy, France and Germany.A year after his death the RHA commemorated Hayes in a memorial section. Thirteen years later, in 1992 a memorial exhibition was held at the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art some examples from this exhibition are included in this collection. Hayes made his home in County Wicklow from the mid-1960s.Anne Crookshank highlighted his love of the land in the exhibition catalogue for Hayes’ 1992 Hugh Lane exhibition, “We can be proud with Ernest Hayes of our lovely East coast as well as of the West which so many of his contemporaries preferred. He is a painter of everyday people and everyday places but he see them and makes us see them as poetry.”
Ernest Columba Hayes RHA (1914-1978) THE ARTIST`S LAST DRAWING, 1978 oil on panel; (unfinished; unframed) inscribed by the artist`s wife in pencil upper right 35.56 by 27.94cm., 14 by 11in. P Estate of Hildegard Hayes, the artist`s wife "A Dublin born artist, Hayes was a student at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art in the years 1931 to 1934, where he studied under Seán Keating and had his first painting accepted by the Royal Hibernian Academy while still a student there. He went on to regularly show at the RHA for the rest of his life. He joined the Dublin Sketching Club in 1935 later becoming the clubs secretary. He had his first one-man show at the Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin in 1937. In 1942 he was elected Associte of the RHA and three years later in 1945 became a full member. That same year he married Irma Verona Maguire (née Stranger-Jones) a pianist and divorcée in London. From 1946 to 1956 he was President of the Dublin Sketching Club after this period he relocated to London an in 1958 he completed a large portrait of the Duchess of Gloucester, now in St Botolph’s Hall, which was exhibited in the Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ Exhibition at the Royal Institute Galleries. Irma died in Dublin in 1959 after battling with cancer. Later that year Hayes met Hildegard von Hob in Gelting, Germany whom he married in 1960. From this point until 1977 he travelled extensively throughout Europe working in Italy, France and Germany.A year after his death the RHA commemorated Hayes in a memorial section. Thirteen years later, in 1992 a memorial exhibition was held at the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art some examples from this exhibition are included in this collection. Hayes made his home in County Wicklow from the mid-1960s.Anne Crookshank highlighted his love of the land in the exhibition catalogue for Hayes’ 1992 Hugh Lane exhibition, “We can be proud with Ernest Hayes of our lovely East coast as well as of the West which so many of his contemporaries preferred. He is a painter of everyday people and everyday places but he see them and makes us see them as poetry.”
Michael Hanrahan (b.1951) THE QUEEN LAYING A WREATH AT THE ISLANDBRIDGE MEMORIAL GARDEN, DUBLIN acrylic on board signed lower left 60.96 by 40.64cm., 24 by 16in. P "May 2011 marked the start of the historic Royal State visit to Ireland of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh. This was the first visit by the British monarch to the 26 southern counties of Ireland since independence in 1922 and was recorded on canvas by Clare artist Michael Hanrahan, the only artist officially accredited to the momentous visit.In addition to the Royal Collection, Hanrahan’s work can be found in numerous private collections throughout Ireland including that of former President Mary McAleese and abroad in the Kennedy Collection, Boston. He has garnered other distinguished commissions to date including official artist for the All-Ireland Hurling Final in Croke Park in September 2010 and Russia versus Ireland in the European Football Championship at the Aviva Stadium in 2010.
Louis le Brocquy HRHA (b.1916) LOUIS LE BROCQUY BY DOROTHY WALKER limited edition book; (first ed. 1981) 28.575 by 21.59cm., 11.25 by 8.5in. P With limited edition print, Samuel Beckett, (no.35 from an edition of 125); signed, dated and numbered, laid in. First edition, River Ward Press, Dublin, 1981, hardback. In linen boards with leather and gilt at spine. Contained in black clamshell presentation case.
Gilbert Swimberghe (Belgian, b.1927) UNTITLED, 1987 oil on canvas signed and dated in pencil lower left; with inscribed Oliver Dowling Gallery exhibition label on reverse 30.48 by 30.48cm., 12 by 12in. L "Oliver Dowling Gallery, Dublin; Where purchased by the current owner" `Gilbert Swimberghe`, Oliver Dowling Gallery, Dublin, 6 - 21 November 1987, exhibition no. 7 "Swimberghe is a Flemish born artist working across several disciplines. He studied at the Academies of Bruges and Saint-Josse-ten-Node, first adopting an expressionist style but later this developed into his own interpretation of abstract minimalism. In 1987 the Irish Arts Review`s Harriet Cooke critiqued his work shown in Dublin commenting on his, "...carefully considered shades of grey" and "...structured balance between tension and subtly". His minimalism she describes as "original [with a] reassuring touch of sensuality`." The original exhibition catalogue for the Oliver Dowling show accompanies this lot.
A DICTIONARY OF IRISH ARTISTS, VOLS. I & II Walter G. Strickland (1850-1928) first edition, 1913 26.035 by 18.415cm., 10.25 by 7.25in. P Maunsel & Company Limited, Dublin & London, 1913, pp.598 and 728 respectively. Includes several hundred plates across the two volumes. Both in original boards with titled spines. An invaluable resource for any art historian or enthusiast.
Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) THE TURFCUTTER`S DONKEY by PATRICIA LYNCH first edition clothbound book 19.685 by 15.24cm., 7.75 by 6in. P J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd., London. First published in 1934, p.p. 237. With illustrations by Jack Butler Yeats, five in colour and eight in black and white. In original illustrated cream-coloured boards with paper wrapper covering for protection.
Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) LETTER TO RICHARD PEARSALL ESQ., 1947 ink; on Yeats` headed paper [18 Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin]; letter (1); envelope; (1); (framed as one) signed, inscribed and dated 19.05 by 24.13cm., 7.5 by 9.5in. L Touching letter from the artist to a friend [Richard Pearsall Esq.] telling him of his wife`s [Cottie] passing four months previously. Poignant words from the private artist during a sad time in his personal life. He writes, "I thought I would die first, but I know now its better as it is...I have painting to occupy my spirit with for a while...
Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) THE POST CAR and THE VILLAGE (A PAIR) hand-coloured Cuala Press prints; (2) the first, signed in the plate lower left, titled lower right; the second, signed on the plate lower right 21.59 by 30.48cm., 8.5 by 12in. L `Arts & Crafts Society of Ireland`, Cuala Industries, 1910, no. 222 (The Village, another copy) Pyle, Hilary, The Different Worlds of Jack B. Yeats: His Cartoons and Illustrations, Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1994, p.284-285 [nos. 2017 and 2023] Dimensions of second work: 3.5 by 13.5in.The Village, sheet size: 4.5 by 14ins. The original of this print was executed in pen, ink and watercolour c.1906. It was later reproduced as a Dún Emer print (listed in Dún Emer Catalogue, October 1907 and Prospectus, May 1908) and as a Cuala print (5). Both works framed and mounted uniformly.
David Winter Guild Membership pieces - 15 Lawnside Road, Cedar Spin, Firkin Cottage, First Born Cottage, Gardener`s Cottage, Irish Water Mill, Mistletoe Cottage, The Model Dary, On The Riverbank, Pershore Mill, The Plucked Ducks, Sextons, The Signal Box, Street Scene Bas-Relief Plaque, Thank You, Tile Maker`s Cottage and Village Scene (18)
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