WHYTE'S IRISH & INTERNATIONAL ART MONDAY 26 SEPTEMBER 2022

50 30 Harry Kernoff RHA (1900-1974) EXTENSION IN TIME SPACE, OR, TIME SPACE IS CURVED, 1941 oil on panel signed lower right; inscribed with an original poem by Kernoff, dated and signed again on reverse 12 by 16in. (30.5 by 40.6cm) Frame Dimensions: 22.5 by 26.5in. (57.2 by 67.3cm) Provenance: Whyte’s, 21 February 2006, lot 148; Private collection Exhibited: Possibly at the RHA, Dublin, 1941, catalogue no. 11, as Extension in Time Space (£100-0-0); ’Old and New Paintings by Harry Kernoff RHA’, Studio Arts Club, Dublin, 6-20 October 1942, catalogue no. 42 (as Space-Time is Curved); ’Harry Kernoff Memorial Exhibition’, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, 14 December 1976 to 30 January 1977, catalogue no. 30 (lent by Lena Kernoff); ’The 30th Anniversary Exhibition of Harry Kernoff’, Spiller Art Gallery, Dublin, 16-26 February 2005, catalogue no. 17 With an original poem by Kernoff inscribed on reverse: “Round the golden sun, the planet called Mars / Elliptically revolves the whole year round / Mere satellite subordinate to stars / But relative no matter where we’re bound. / Though small we have a place in stellar space / Which meets in the womb of future time / Curved space that parabolic fits the rhyme. / Perhaps the fate that holds the human race / Destined for evolutions future grace / The arches of the years so infinite / Extending to great empyrean height / As man moves forward on this narrow path / So careless of the coming aftermath / to celestial fourth dimensional place”. €5,000-€7,000 (£4,310-£6,030 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot30