SPRING ONLINE ART SALE Ends Monday 24 March 2025

87 SPRING ONLINE ART SALE Ends Monday 24 March 2025 from 6PM 82 Patrick Joseph Tuohy (1894-1930) PORTRAIT OF DOUGLAS HYDE pencil signed lower right 9 by 7.50in. (22.9 by 19.1cm) Frame Size: 17.5 by 16in. (44.5 by 40.6cm) Provenance: Alan and Mary Hobart Collection Alan Hobart died in 2021 and Mary three years later. His obituary in the Irish Times wrote, ‘The Irish in the early 20th century had been poets and playwrights, not painters. The Hobarts set out to disprove this popular misconception.’ The Hobarts were founders of the Pyms Gallery in London and in 2023 the Irish Museum of Modern Art curated a show in their honor ‘Championing Irish Art The Mary and Alan Hobart Collection’ 8 April to 23 July 2023 describing it thus: ‘An exhibition dedicated to the Pyms Gallery will expand on the role that its founders, Mary and Alan Hobart, played in establishing a new canon of Irish art, alongside the political risks taken by the Gallery in promoting Irish art in the midst of the turbulence of the 1980s and against the backdrop of the Troubles.’ €600-€800 (£500-£660 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot82