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Kenneth Webb RWA FRSA RUA
( b.1927)
LAZY AFTERNOON, late 1980s
oil on canvas
signed lower right
24 by 20in. (60.96 by 50.80cm)
Provenance:
James Gallery, Dalkey;
Where purchased by the present owner
Exhibited:
‘Webb at the James’, James Gallery, Dublin, June
2001 (illustrated p.8 of exhibition catalogue)
Literature:
Walpole, Josephine, Kenneth Webb, A life in Colour,
Antique Collector’s Club, Suffolk, 2003, p.199
(referenced), p.120 (full-page colour illustration)
A copy of the original exhibition catalogue signed by the
artist accompanies this lot.
Kenneth Webb, A life in Colourdescribes the present
work thus: “ Lazy Afternoon shows a group of
immaculately painted people sitting on an equally
immaculate wall overlooking a traditional shore and sea
then, in front, we are faced with a tumultuous riot of
massed meadow flowers picked out here and there with
a perfectly formed and executed poppy.”
€6,000-€8,000 (£5,100-£6,800 approx.)
2
Liam O’Neill ( b.1954)
MO THOBAC? 1991
oil on canvas
signed lower left; signed, titled and dated on reverse;
with artist’s [Dublin] studio label affixed on reverse
36 by 24in. (91.44 by 60.96cm)
Provenance:
Purchased directly from the artist by the present
owner
€4,000-€6,000 (£3,400-£5,100 approx.)