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Lady Hazel Lavery (née Martyn) (1880-1935)
SKETCHES BY HAZEL MARTYN, 1903
dry-point etching; (10 plus decorated title page)
each signed in the plate; each dated and with publisher’s details printed in lower corners
20 x 14in. (50.80 x 35.56cm)
Contained in original decorated wrappers titled ‘Pictures in Colour by Hazel Martyn’.Also included in this lot are a set of
11 dry-point etchings inscribed ‘Copyright 1904, by Otis H Kean, Inc, New York’ which appear to be by a different hand.
Dry-point etching was the medium of choice for Hazel Martyn, who studied the technique in Paris in 1902 and again in
1903 with the Parisian etcher Edgar Chahine (1874-1947). In the spring of 1903 an exhibition of Martyn’s European work
was held in Chicago and the Chicago Daily News reported: Men who know pictures are enthusiastic about her work”.
This same year Sketches by Hazel Martyn was published by A. C. McClurg, Chicago, on behalf of the Arts Collector’s Club.
In 1903 Hazel was 23 years old and studying art in France. It was at this time she first encountered Sir John Lavery at
the artist colony of Beg-Meil in Brittany. Later that year she married Edward Livingston Trudeau and the following year a
daughter, Alice, was born. She would marry her second husband, Sir John Lavery in 1909.”
€2,000-€3,000 (£1470-£2210 approx. approx.)
Large Image & Place Bid Lot 22IRISH & INTERNATIONAL ART · 28 SEPTEMBER 2015