WHYTE'S IRISH & INTERNATIONAL ART 26 FEBRUARY 2018

IRISH & INTERNATIONAL ART · 26 FEBRUARY 2018 AT 6 PM 4 KennethWebb RWA FRSA RUA (b.1927) LAZY AFTERNOON oil on canvas signed lower right 24 by 20in. (61 by 50.8cm) Provenance: James Gallery, Dalkey; Where purchased by the previous owner; Private collection; Whyte’s, 4 March 2013, lot 1; Private collection Exhibited: ‘Webb at the James’, James Gallery, Dublin, June 2001 (illustrated p.8 of exhibition catalogue) Literature: Walpole, Josephine, Kenneth Webb, A life in Colour, Antique Collector’s Club, Suffolk, 2003, p.199 (referenced), p.120 (full-page colour illustration) Kenneth Webb, A life in Colour describes the present work thus: ”Lazy Afternoon shows a group of immaculately painted people sitting on an equally immaculate wall overlooking a traditional shore and sea then; in front, we are faced with a tumultuous riot of massed meadow flowers picked out here and there with a perfectly formed and executed poppy.” €7,000-€9,000 (£5,000-£6,430 approx.) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid Lot 4