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Ralph Cusack (1912-1965)
LILIES AND ROSCOEAS, 1950
oil on board
with Irish Exhibition of Living Art [1950] label on reverse
36 by 28in. (91.44 by 71.12cm)
Provenance:
The Collection of Robert Fermor-Hesketh;
His sale, Christie’s, 3 June 1999, lot 201;
Private collection
Exhibited:
Irish Exhibition of Living Art, Dublin, 16 August - 10 September,
1950, catalogue no. 14 as Lilies and Roscoeas[£30-0-0]
In 1950 Ralph Cusack exhibited two works at the IELA, the present
work and another entitled Path Through my Wood, no. 73 (illustrated in
exhibition catalogue). He was on the frst executive committee for the
IELA in 1943 and during his involvement his own works were
described as ‘ultra-revolutionary’ for their time.
Cusack was a frst cousin of Mainie Jellett. Largely self-taught, he lived
on the Continent from the mid 1930s and exhibited in the Salon de
Monaco in 1937. He return to Dublin on the outbreak of the war and
had his frst solo show in the Dublin Painters’ Gallery in 1940. He later
showed with the WCSI and designed stage sets for the Olympia
Theatre alongside Anne Yeats and Thurloe Conolly. In the 1950s
Cusack lived with his wife Nancy in Roundwood, Wicklow where he
managed a nursery for rare bulbs. He later relocated to France again in
the mid 1950s and exhibited in a group show entitled ‘Artistes
Étrangers en France’ in the Petit Palais, Paris, 1955. The artist wrote his
autobiography between 1955 and 1957 and died in the summer of
1965.
€800-€1,200 (£655-£983 approx).
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Patrick Scott HRHA ( b.1921) and
Kevin Fox (1921-c.2006)
12 SKETCH DESIGNS FOR PROPOSED MURAL PAINTINGS IN THE
ASSEMBLY HALL OF FOUR PROVINCES HOUSE
gouache; (each mounted but unframed)
most with typed label on reverse detailing title and description of
design; held within a card portfolio case with typed label inside
cover detailing title of collection
9.75 by 16.75in. (24.77 by 42.55cm)
Titles include; The Assize of Bread, 1384, Baking in Ancient Ireland, Bread
Riots, 1578, Bread for the Poor, 1650, Parade of the Guilds, 1750, Lord
Mayor’s Procession, 1801, Rise of the Journeymen, 1820, Trades Procession
1875, Ralahine, Connolly in Belfast, 1910, The Trades Council, 1913.
The Bakers Union of Ireland opened their new headquarters, Four
Provinces House, in 1947. It housed a bakery school and an 8,000
volume library. Patrick Scott was later, in 1949, to produce a mural for
the restaurant at the top of Busáras, commissioned by architect
Michael Scott.
€800-€1,200 (£655-£983 approx).
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Gerard Dillon (1916-1971)
BOY WITH CAT
pen and ink with gouache over printed image [Henry Moore]
with inscription [“Best wishes for Christmas and New Year Gerard
over Henry Moore.”] on reverse; with typed text verso relating to
the Moore image
3.50 by 6.25in. (8.89 by 15.88cm)
€500-€700 (£409-£573 approx).
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