Whytes Important Irish Art 25 May 2015 - (click Date on Lot pages to add to your Calendar)

Evie Hone HRHA (1894-1955)

CHRIST AMONG THE DOCTORS, 1944

watercolour

signed and dated lower right

55 x 44in. (139.70 x 111.76cm)

Provenance:

Collection of Dr. Eileen MacCarvill; Dawson Gallery, Dublin;

Private collection

Exhibited:

‘Religious & Secular Works by Evie Hone’, Dawson Gallery, Dublin, from 4 June 1957, catalogue no. 25; ‘Evie Hone 1894-

1955’, The Great Hall, University College, Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin, 29 July to 5 September 1958, catalogue no. 63 (lent by

Dr. E. MacCarvill)

The present work is described in the Great Hall exhibition catalogue as, “Cartoon for the window submitted to the

Drogheda Grammar School and not accepted / c.1943”.

The commission for the designing of a stained glass window for Drogheda Grammar School was ultimately awarded

to the Harry Clarke Stained Glass Studio and was funded by donations and contributions to the school. The window

was originally installed in the old school building in Laurence’s Street and later went into storage until 1976. In 2012 the

stained glass window was reinstalled in a reflection room in the new school building extension.

€ 5,000.00- € 7,000.00 (£3,730-£5,220 approx.)

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