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A DICTIONARY OF IRISH ARTISTS, VOLS. I & II
Walter G. Strickland (1850-1928)
first edition, 1913
10.25 by 7.25in. (26.04 by 18.42cm)
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.
€300-€500 (£250-£420 approx)
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Erskine Nicol ARA RSA (1825-1904)
BOTH PUZZLED, 1897
engraving
with artist’s name printed in the margin lower left; engraver’s name
[W.H. Simmons] lower right; publisher’s details and full title lower
centre
27.50 by 18.50in. (69.85 by 46.99cm)
Printed and published by the National Arts Society, London, 1 September 1897.
Full title lower centre reads, Both Puzzled. “But, Sir, if wanst nought be nothing, then
twice nought must be somthin. For it’s double what wanst nought is.
This engraving is based on an oil by the artist from 1868 which sold at auction in
2008.
€200-€300 (£170-£250 approx)
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Lady Hazel Lavery (née Martyn) (1880-1935)
MOTHER AND CHILD, 1903
print
signed in the plate lower right; with publisher’s details lower left
20 by 14in. (50.80 by 35.56cm)
Dry-point etching was the medium of choice for Hazel Martyn, who studied the
technique in Paris in 1902 and again in 1903 with the Parisian etcher Edgar
Chahine (1874-1947). In the spring of 1903 an exhibition of Martyn’s European
work was held in Chicago and the Chicago Daily News reported: “Men who know
pictures are enthusiastic about her work”. This same year Sketches by Hazel
Martyn was published by A. C. McClurg, Chicago, on behalf of the Arts Collector’s
Club. This work pertains to this publication which featured etchings of society
ladies and included a self-portrait.
In 1903 Hazel was 23 years old and studying art in France. It was at this time she
frst encountered Sir John Lavery at the artist colony of Beg-Meil in Brittany. Later
that year she married Edward Livingston Trudeau and the following year a
daughter, Alice, was born. She would marry her second husband, Sir John Lavery
in 1909.
€600-€800 (£500-£670 approx)
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Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957)
THE TURFCUTTER’S DONKEY by PATRICIA LYNCH
first edition, clothbound
7.75 by 6in. (19.69 by 15.24cm)
J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd., London. First published in 1934, p.p. 237. With
illustrations by Jack Butler Yeats, fve in colour and eight in black and white. In
original illustrated cream-coloured boards with paper wrapper covering for
protection.
€400-€600 (£340-£500 approx)
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Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957)
LIFE IN THE WEST OF IRELAND, DRAWN AND PAINTED BY JACK. B.
YEATS
New edition, Maunsel & Company Ltd., Dublin & London, 1915; clothbound
with dedication to previous owner from Lily Yeats inside cover; also with a
Christmas card from Aileen and Thomas Bodkin [with print of their picture by
Yeats] laid in
9.75 by 7.25in. (24.77 by 18.42cm)
New edition, Maunsel & Company Ltd., Dublin and London, 1915. In original
fawn-coloured paper boards titled on upper and spine. Contains eight colour
plates, thirty-two line drawings and sixteen reproductions from paintings.
Protected with a glassine sleeve. Essential for any Yeats afcionado.
€700-€900 (£590-£760 approx)
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Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957)
GEORGE A. BIRMINGHAM - IRISHMEN ALL and THE BIG TREE OF
BUNCLODY, STORIES OF MY OWN COUNTRYSIDE BY PADRAIC
COLUM
the first with dedication to A.W. Knapp by Mrs B. Cadbury dated
22 July, 1914
8.50 by 6in. (21.59 by 15.24cm)
LITERATURE AND PRINTS
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