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Harry Kernoff RHA (1900-1974)
MEN FISHING,WEST RIVER FALLS, NOVA
SCOTIA, CANADA, 1957
oil and pastel on board
signed lower left; titled and dated on
reverse
17 by 21in. (43.18 by 53.34cm)
Provenance:
Jefferson Smurfit Group, Dublin;
Adam’s & Bonhams, 8 December 2004,
lot 113;
Private collection
Exhibited:
Hendriks Gallery, Dublin, 1958 (catalogue
untraced); ‘30th Anniversary Exhibition of
Harry Kernoff (1900-1974)’, Spiller Art,
Dublin, 16-28 February 2005, catalogue
no. 2
Kernof visited Canada for six months in 1957 at
the invitation of a Canadian businessman, whom
he met and befriended in the Bailey pub. He
completed approximately thirty works there and
they all sold in the Hendriks Gallery in 1958,
including this oil and pastel of West River Falls.
This painting was subsequently in the Jeferson
Smurft Collection and has been in another
private collection since 2004.
€6,000-€8,000 (£5,040-£6,720 approx)
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Harry Kernoff RHA (1900-1974)
“AN ASPECT OF SUPERREALISM” or
“FLOATING CUBES, (AN ESSAY IN
SUPERREALISM)”
oil on board
signed lower right; with title inscribed on
reverse; also with typed label on reverse
20 by 21.50in. (50.80 by 54.61cm)
Exhibited:
RHA, Dublin, 1962, as Floating Cubes, (an
essay in Superrealism), catalogue no. 122
[£55-0-0];
‘The 30th Anniversary Exhibition of Harry
Kernoff (1900-1974)’, Spiller Art Gallery,
Dublin, 16-26 February, 2005, catalogue
no. 7 (illustrated)
€2,000-€3,000 (£1,680-£2,520 approx)