WHYTE'S IMPORTANT IRISH ART MONDAY 27 MAY 2019 AT 6PM

IMPORTANT IRISH ART · 27 MAY AT 6PM Footnotes: 1. Newman Flower ed., The Journals of Arnold Bennett, 1932, (Cassell and Co), pp. 167, 170 (entries for 19 April and 6 May 1904). ‘K’ was either Gerald Kelly or Joseph Milner Kite. 2. Kenneth McConkey, John Lavery, a Painter and his World, 2010, (Atelier Books), p. 86, 225-6 (note 45). 3. Like Lavery, Neven du Mont was commuting between London and the German capital; see John Lavery, The Life of a Painter, 1940 (Cassell and Co), p. 76; McConkey 2010, pp. 85-8. August Neven du Mont (1866-1909) came to know Lavery around 1898 when he showed at the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers. In the following year he rented 7 Cromwell Place, next door to Lavery. His portrait of Mary Auras was sold at Lempertz in Cologne in 2013. 4. McConkey, 2010, pp. 89, 101. 5. Recent forest fires across the United States had sent insurance costs soaring. 6. For fuller accounts of this series of events see Lady Gregory, Hugh Lane’s Life and Achievement, 1921 (John Murray), pp. 46- 50; see also Robert O’Byrne, Hugh Lane 1875-1915, 2000, (The Lilliput Press, Dublin), pp. 48-52; Morna O’Neill, Hugh Lane, The Art Market and the Art Museum, 1893-1915, 2018 (Yale 7. He also intimated that he would not send to St Louis even though he had the option to appear amongst former Glasgow School painters. Mary in Black does not appear in the catalogue of the Guildhall Art Gallery exhibition. Lavery showed twenty- five works in Schulte’s Gallery in Berlin, 15 of which are listed by Walter Shaw Sparrow, John Lavery and His Work, n.d. [1911], (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co), p.184. It is not unlikely, given the transfer of pictures to the St Louis project, and in view of Bennett’s comments (see note 1) that the present version of Mary in Black was also included in the German exhibition. 8. This was Leicester Galleries, Cabinet Pictures by John Lavery, November 1904, see nos. 11, 32, & 42 €60,000-€80,000 (£51,720-£68,970 approx.) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid Lot 26