WHYTE'S IMPORTANT IRISH ART MONDAY 26 NOVEMBER 2018 AT 6PM

23 George Russell (“Æ”) (1867-1935) FLIGHT oil on canvas inscribed with title and framing instructions on reverse; also with Arthur Staples [London] framing label preserved on reverse 16 by 21in. (40.6 by 53.3cm) Provenance: Lord Harmsworth, Lime Lodge, Egham, Surrey; Private collection; Whyte’s, 18 May 2009, lot 96; Private collection In the original frame of Arthur Staples, 201 High Road, Kilburn, NW London. The former owner of this painting was the publisher, poet and artist, Desmond Harmsworth, 2nd Baron Harmsworth. Born in 1903, he was educated at Eton and Christchurch College Oxford. A confidant of such authors as James Joyce andWyndham Lewis, he published both their works, including Joyce’s Pomes Penyeach and Lewis’The Enemy of the Stars and Thirty Personalities and a Self-Portrait. During the 1930s he followed in the footsteps of Gauguin, painting in Tahiti. His daughter, the Hon. Margaret Philips (1928-2007), was likewise artistically inclined; she studied sculpture and lived and worked in Paris. €4,000-€ 6,000 (£3,540-£5,310 approx.) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid Lot 23