Harry Kernoff RHA (1900-1974) QUEEN'S MEWS COURT, STORE STREET, DUBLIN, c.1939-1940 oil on panel signed lower right; inscribed with title [Queen's Mews Court, Store Street, Dublin (Now Gone), 1940] and artist's address [Stamer St., Dublin] on reverse 21 x 20in. (53.34 x 50.80cm) Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner's family 'Loan and Cross Section Exhibition of Contemporary Paintings', October 7-31, 1939, catalogue no. 51; 'Recent Work of Harry Kernoff, RHA,' Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin, 11-19 June 1940, catalogue no. 20; RHA Annual Exhibition, 1940, catalogue no. 22; 'Exhibition of Old and New Paintings by Harry Kernoff RHA', Studio Arts Club, 6 - 20 October 1942, catalogue no. 44 Brightly coloured and filled with bustling detail, this painting is characteristic of Kernoff's views of streets and lanes around Dublin.No longer part of the city's streetscape, Queen's Mews Court was located at the junction of Mabbot Street and Store Street, almost tucked under the overhead railway track. The original function of the Court was to serve as stabling for the Custom House, and in his seminal text Dublin 1660 - 1860 Maurice Craig described it as 'the Custom House Stables, Store Street'. (1) Kernoff has filled the composition with small details evocative of daily life in this small corner of the city. Clean laundry appears to waft gently in a breeze, casting strong, dark shadows on the pink wall of the terrace. The pavement is neat and tidy, save for a lingering puddle. The small black dog in the left hand corner can be found in many of Kernoff's Dublin paintings, such as Liberty Hall, Dublin (Night), (Whyte's, 1 October 2012, lot 64). The stance and braided hair of the young girl in on the right hand side is also repeated in other works, for example, Sunny Day, Dublin, 1943 (Crawford Art Gallery, Cork). A preparatory sketch in the collection of the National Gallery of Ireland (NGI.7766.411) is dated to 14 August 1939, and a comparison of the two works show that Kernoff made a number of changes to the composition in the finished painting. In the drawing, a steam engine is coming into sight on the railway bridge, while above the 'Kosy Kottage', two advertisements can be seen. In the present work, an eye-catching blue and white sign touts cut price cigarettes - a notable change from eggs, as seen in the drawing. The addition of the woman pushing a cart of laundry bags at the edge of the canvas, draws the viewer's eye, and we cannot but help follow her glance towards the children playing to the side. Dr Kathryn MilliganESB Fellow, ESB Centre for the Study of Irish Art, National Gallery of IrelandApril 2016Footnote:1. Maurice Craig, Dublin 1660 - 1860: a social and architectural history, Dublin, Allen Figgis Ltd., 1969, plate XLI. P
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Raoul Dufy, 'Cheveau et Charettes', atelier stamp, circa 1935, pencil, labelled verso, 20.5 x 26.5cm. Provenance: Neffe-Degandt Gallery, 32A St George Street, London, W1R 9RF Condition Report: This pencil sketch comes framed and glazed and appears in good order. However it looks to have been re-framed recently. There is foxing around the edges.
Raoul Dufy, 'Bord de Mer', atelier stamp, circa 1946, blue crayon, labelled verso, 27 x 21.5cm. Provenance: Neffe-Degandt Gallery, 32A St George Street, London, W1R 9RF Condition Report: This crayon sketch comes framed and glazed and appears in good order. However it looks to have been re-framed recently. There is a fold/crease down the middle and foxing in places.
An Oil on Canvas by N. Halpenny depicting an antelope, a further oil depicting swans, a hunting print after a pencil sketch titled verso 'Mrs Hall M.F.H. Carlow, Painting by Mrs Coleman' with Combridge label verso, a Leo Earley print and three further furnishing prints. Proceeds to The Kildare and West Wicklow Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Duncan Grant (British 1885-1978) /Chicken/inscribed on a label to the reverse 'Sketch of Hen given by Deidre Feb 1980 taken from one of Duncan Grant's sketchbooks'/pencil, 13cm x 12cm Condition Report: Artist's Resale Rights may apply to this Lot. Sheet with discolouration - see further images
A late 19th century oil painting on canvas by Henry Frederick Lucas Lucas, study of a soldier from the 17th Lancers Regiment, on a brown horse and in a mountainous setting, inscribed bottom left - 17th Lancers, Sketch by H F Lucas Lucas and dated 1897, also inscribed verso - Trooper 17th Lancers, Sketched by H F Lucas Lucas, Rugby May 1987, 47 x 35 cm approx in beaded gilt frame
ISAAK ILYITCH LEVITAN (RUSSIAN 1860-1900)Crimean Sunset, oil on paperboard16 x 25 cm (6 1/4 x 9 7/8 in.)bearing an authenticating inscription by Avel Levitan along the lower edge Etyud moyego pokoynogo brata I. Levitana. A. Levitan [A sketch by my late brother I. Levitan. A. Levitan]; further inscribed by A. Levitan on verso
PRE WAR GERMAN EROTICA; A collection of three rare pen and ink illustrations, German in origin, each with a pornographic / erotic scene. To each pieces is an official believed censors stamp, showing the pieces to have passed some kind of certification. Each stamped and dated 10th Aug 1934. Each sketch signed ' Lushe '. Framed and glazed, largest being 41cm x 31cm.
A SIGNED BATTLE OF BRITAIN Sept 24th 1942 DINNER A London Hangar Q B, Dinner to the Battle of Britain Boys at the Savoy Hotel, signed by many participants and famous names. Over 100 signatures including Billy Clyde 601 Sqdn an 'Ace'. Anthony Bartley 111 Sqdn (12 kills). Dennis Crowley-Milling, Hugh Dowding, Max Aitken, M C Loudon, Basil Embry, etc. Centre sketch signed Struple, with Goering getting his backside kicked. The numbered signatures are presumably a key to a separate listing of participants at the dinner. Some damage evident but kind treatment has ensured its survival.
19thC THEMED PEN & INK SKETCHBOOK. Including a sketch of the City of Montreal ablaze , from the Barque Trebant. A fallen Tribesman after the Battle of Gemaizah 1888. The Apache War of 1888, the Arizona Rangers Camp, Apache Types etc. The Inconstant surprised and sunk off Malin Head by the Spider. Torpedo Boat on the Warpath, etc. Almost all signed by Herbert Winterton, who went on to a career in Photography. These scenes were as he saw or envisaged them to be.
B. McDONALD; a pencil sketch, figural church interior scene, 17 x 12cm, framed and glazed, also three decorative oils depicting landscapes, the largest 37 x 75cm, all framed (4). (D) CONDITION REPORT: This lot qualifies for Artist Resale Rights. For further information, please visit http://www.dacs.org.uk
Stanley Spencer (British, 1891-1959) Sketch for St. Francis and the Birds pencil on paper 8.8cm x 7.8cm. Provenance: Estate of Daphne and George Charlton. Note: Inscribed 'This is the first sketch by Stanley Spencer for his painting of 'St. Francis and the birds'. It was prompted - inspired - by seeing his father in his dressing gown feed the geese. Their are other sketches in the same vein on this sheet' to reverse.
SIR WILLIAM GOSCOMBE JOHN, (British, 1860-1952), 'Sketch Model of the Statue at Aberystwyth', of Charles Edwards, DD. Patinated bronze on oak plinth. The bronze figure 34cm high. Note: Thomas Charles Edwards (1837-1900), Welsh minister, writer and academic, the First Principal of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. CONDITION REPORT: Overall no obvious damage.
WELSH FAMILY HISTORY: HENRY WATKIN LEWIS, (Welsh, died 1897), a significant, extensive and interesting archive of ephemera, photographs and personal diaries, including 1889-90 personal diary of British Empire trip to Egypt, India etc. including sketches, records of meetings with notable people including Czar of Russia, further diary of a trip to the USA including: New York; Chicago; Missouri; San Francisco; meeting President Cleveland at the Whitehouse; Chicago penitentiary etc. Further personal diary for the whole of 1887 to include: America; daily working life at Bute Docks; homelife at Abercanaid; Plymouth etc. Various sketch and diary type books including: engineering and other sketches; sketches of his horse; marine sketches; Egyptian boarding card with passenger list, 1889; collection of 50 Carte de Visite photographs and various other framed family photographs; indenture and other estate and legal type of documents; hand coloured sketches after Charles Dickens; significant number of letters, mostly from 1875, personal and work related and many other interesting entries and items. Note: Henry Watkin Lewis of Abercanaid, Merthyr Tydfil, died Harrogate, September 10th, 1897, founder of the Treherbert Engineering Works, associated with Mr. Anthony Hill at the Plymouth works and with Mr. Crawshay Bailey at Nant y Glo, significant for his mechanical and engineering abilities and for risking his life in situations of colliery accidents, one notably at Tynewydd, where his services were recognised by the bestowal of a medal bearing that name. One on the oldest members of the South Wales Institute of Engineers, a member of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers and one of the original members of the Iron and Steel Institute. Founder Director of the Bute Ship Building and Engineering Works, Cardiff.
Lieutenant Charles Rathbone Low. Her Majesties Navy, including its Deeds and Battles, three volumes, in original gilt tooled blue cloth boards, Her Majesties Army, Indian and Colonial Forces, London JS Virtue and Co Ltd, three volumes, in gilt tooled red stamped cloth boards, The Royal Airforce, three volumes Denis Richards, London, Her Majesties Stationery Office 1953, with original dust wrapper, Ironclads in Action, a sketch of Naval Warfare from 1855 1895 by H.W. Wilson, Sampson Low Marston and Co, 1896, two volumes, gilt tooled blue cloth boards. Thomas Archer, The War in Egypt and the Sudan, London Blackie and Sons, three volumes bound in two, some foxing, spine compromised on one volume, and other related subjects
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