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Basil Ivan Rákóczi (1908-1979)
THE FAITHFUL DOG, 1953
oil on canvas
signed lower right; inscribed with title and dated on reverse;
with artist’s archival number [1992A] and inscribed ‘Desbordes,
Paris’ label also on reverse
10.50 by 18in. (26.67 by 45.72cm)
Provenance:
The Collection of Jacqueline Robinson, Paris;
Private collection
Exhibited:
possibly exhibited at the Dublin Painters’ Gallery, 12-14
October 1953, this exhibition included works in oil, monotypes,
gouaches and watercolours and depicted similar scenes of
beasts and woodlands
During the early 1950s Basil Rákóczi published a range of works
including de luxe editions of his own poems and illustrations, Song
Book of Idiot Boy, (Paris, 1953) and The Caged and The Free (Paris,
1955) many of which published were also connected with the artistic
collective,The White Stag (‘Editions du Cerf Blanc’ (White Stag Press’).
This escape into another form of expression activated the artist and
inspired some of his most important creations including the later work,
Jacqueline Robinson’s Et ce chant dans mon coeur... sept poemes
(1971). Robinson was a dancer and friend of Mainie Jellett’s who
established her own dance company in Paris. She was closely affiliated
with Basil Rákóczi and other members of The White Stag. Rákóczi
painted Jacqueline on a few occasions and the two were romantically
linked for a time.
€2,000-€3,000 (£1,700-£2,600 approx.)
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Kenneth Hall (1913-1946)
DRAKE RESTING, 1943
oil on canvas
signed lower right
13.25 by 18.25in. (33.66 by 46.36cm)
Literature:
Herbrand, Ingouville-Williams, Three Painters:
Basil Rákóczi, Kenneth Hall, Patrick Scott, at
the sign of The Three Candles, Dublin, 1945,
catalogue no. 12 (illustrated)
Exhibited:
‘Kenneth Hall 1913-1946: A
Retrospective Exhibition’, European
Modern Art, Dublin, March 1991, no. 35
Drake Resting was used by Hall as a symbol on his
catalogues in Dublin in the 1940s and on the
cover of his Dublin retrospective in 1991.
€1,500-€2,000 (£1,300-£1,700 approx.)