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IMPORTANT IRISH ART · 30 MAY 2016 AT 6PM
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Patrick Hennessy RHA (1915-1980)
THE WINDOW, c.1940s
oil on canvas
signed and indistinctly dated upper right
19.5 by 11.5in. (49.53 x 29.21cm)
Provenance:
Sotheby’s, 21 May 1999, lot 399;
Private collection
Examples from this period in the artist’s oeuvre form part of a major retrospective ‘Patrick Hennessy: De
Profundis’ [24 March - 24 July 2016] currently taking place at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin and
curated by Seán Kissane.
€3,500-€4,500 (£2,760-£3,540 approx)