WHYTE'S IMPORTANT IRISH ART Monday 11 March 2024 at 6pm

140 105 Jerome Connor (1874-1943) THE SIREN bronze relief on green marble plaque; (unique) with artist’s name and title on marble plaque 14.75 by 10.50 by 2.75in. (37.5 by 26.7 by 7cm) Born in Co. Kerry, Jerome Connor emigrated from Ireland in 1888, settling with his family in America. He learned the skills of stone carving and bronze casting at a young age and worked for a time for a monument company in Springfield, Massachusetts. While in America he was responsible for a number of major public commissions including the Spanish American War Memorial at Springfield and a standing portrait of Robert Emmet for the Smithsonian Institute, a copy of which now stands in St Stephen’s Green, Dublin. In 1925 he returned to Ireland after receiving a commission to create the Lusitania Peace Memorial at Cobh, a project which occupied him for many years. In 1926 he completed a bronze bust of George Russell which he cast, chased and patinated himself making it the first bronze statue ever fully completed in Ireland. During this period he exhibited several times at the RHA and at RA in London. A memorial exhibition of his work was held at the 1943 Irish Exhibition of Living Art and in 1993 the National Gallery of Ireland had a commemorative exhibition. €3,000-€4,000 (£2,560-£3,420 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot105