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Aloysius C. O’Kelly (1853-1936)
TREES
oil on board
signed lower right
12.50 by 9in. (31.75 by 22.86cm)
€2,000-€3,000 (£1,700-£2,600 approx.)
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Aloysius C. O’Kelly (1853-1936)
EDMOND O’DONOVAN AS AN ORIENTAL, c. 1883-84
watercolour over pencil heightened with body colour on laid paper
signed lower right; with Hugh Lane exhibition label on reverse
22.25 by 16in. (56.52 by 40.64cm)
Exhibited:
‘Aloysius O’Kelly, Re-Orientations, Paintings, Politics and Popular
Culture’, Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin,
25 November 1999 to 30 January 2000
Literature:
O’Sullivan, Niamh, Aloysius O’Kelly, Re-Orientations, Paintings,
Politics and Popular Culture, Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of
Modern Art, Dublin, 1999, p.72 -73 (full page illustration p.72)
A graduate of Belvedere and later Trinity College, Edmond O’Donovan was
sworn into the Fenians by O’Donovan Rossa. After a failed uprising in 1867
he fled to Paris. He joined the Foreign Legion at the outbreak of the Franco-
Prussian in 1870.Wounded and taken prisoner, he was shipped back to
Ireland in May 1871.When he was home in Ireland he spent his time trying
to revitalise the Fenian movement while also reporting on the Balkan War
for the Daily News. His time as a correspondent came to a tragic end when
he disappeared in the Sudan during the Mahdi uprising in 1883.
€800-€1,000 (£690-£860 approx.)
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