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WHYTESS I N C E 1 7 8 3
,
84
SELF PORTRAIT, 1940
watercolour over pencil
signed, inscribed and dated
on reverse; also with
catalogue number [107] on
reverse
16 by 12in. (40.64 by
30.48cm)
€800-€1,200
(£670-£1,010 approx)
85
SELF PORTRAIT, 1937
pencil
signed and dated [July]
lower right
17.50 by 13.50in. (44.45 by
34.29cm)
€500-€600
(£420-£500 approx)
86
THE ARTIST’S FATHER
pencil
with title on reverse
6.50 by 5.50in. (16.51 by
13.97cm)
Exhibited:
‘Ernest Hayes 1914-1978’,
Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin,
27 November to 24 January,
1993, exhibition no. 18
(illustrated p.53 of exhibition
catalogue)
This work dates to pre-1960.
€200-€300
(£170-£250 approx)
Lots 84-114 by ERNEST COLUMBA HAYES RHA (1914-1978)
unless otherwise stated
Collection provenance:
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 frst
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 frst 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
87
Eithne McNally
(fl. 1930s-1940s)
PORTRAIT OF ERNEST COLUMBA
HAYES, c.1940
oil on canvas; (unstretched)
signed upper right; inscribed
“Myself by Eithne” in the tacky
margin lower left
22 by 17.50in. (55.88 by 44.45cm)
Eithne McNally appears to have been a
friend of Ernest Hayes. She is recorded as
having a solo show in the Dublin
Painter’s Gallery. In 1942 she submitted a
still life to the Dublin Sketching Club and
the RHA records two works from an
address in Raheny, Dublin in 1941 and
1942. In 1940 Hayes exhibited at the Dublin Sketching Club a portrait of the artist’s sister,
Dr. Nora McNally. The following year a portrait of Eithne by Hayes was painted, sketches
of which are contained in lot 111. In 1982 the fnished oil of Dr. McNally and Eithne were
recorded as in the collection of Miss McNally, Achill, Co. Mayo.
€1,000-€1,500 (£1,190-£1,790 approx)
Photographs, courtesy of the
Estate, are not included in
the sale.
Hayes painting en plein air, c.1950s
Hayes with frst wife, Irma and Ms Dorothy
Day viewing a portrait of Mrs Arthur Staford,
RHA, April 1952.
William Conor received by Hayes, Leo Whelan
and Letitia Hamilton, RHA, May 1950.