IMPORTANT IRISH ART 3 MARCH 2025

41 IMPORTANT IRISH ART · 3 MARCH 2025 AT 6PM 24 Leonard Richmond (English, 1889-1965) NEAR LE PUY, FRANCE, 1922 oil on canvas signed and dated lower right; signed, titled and inscribed [13 Redcliffe Square] on a label affixed to the stretcher; also with Jorgensen Fine Art label on reverse 48 by 60in. (121.9 by 152.4cm) Frame Size: 58 by 70.5in. (147.3 by 179.1cm) Provenance: Christie’s, 19 November 2004, lot 154; with Jorgensen Fine Art, Dublin; Private collection Leonard Richmond was a Somerset-born British landscape artist who spent a large part of his career in Canada and was noted for his railway posters. During WorldWar I Richmond served as an official war artist for Canada. In the 1920s and 1930s he produced posters promoting the Canadian Pacific Railway plus the Southern and Great Western Railways in Britain. Richmond was awarded several prizes including the Tuthill Prize (1928) at the Chicago International Watercolour Exhibition and a silver medal (1947) at the Paris Salon. Examples of his pictures are held by several public collections in Britain including: The British Museum, All Souls College, Oxford, the National Railway Museum, The National Trust, Newport Museum and Art Gallery and Penlee House Gallery and Museum. €5,000-€7,000 (£4,170-£5,830 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot24