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28 18 Aloysius C. O’Kelly (1853-1936) MASS IN A CONNEMARA CABIN c.1883 watercolour signed lower right 16.50 by 22.50in. (41.9 by 57.2cm) Frame Size: 27 by 33in. (68.6 by 83.8cm) Provenance: A New York Rectory by bequest to the previous owner; Gorry Gallery, Dublin, 2005; Private collection Exhibited: ‘An Exhibition of 18th, 19th and 20th Century Irish Paintings’, Gorry Gallery, Dublin, 2-12 March 2005, catalogue no. 32; ’Rural Ireland: The Inside Story’, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 11 February to 3 June 2012 Literature: Niamh O’Sullivan, Re-orientations. Aloysius O’Kelly: Painting Politics and Popular Culture, Dublin, Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, 1999; ’The Priest and the People: Mass in a Connemara Cabin’ in From the Edge: Art and Design in Twentieth Century Ireland’, CIRCA Special, Summer 2000; Mass in a Connemara Cabin, Gorry Gallery, Dublin, 2005; ‘Mass in a Connemara Cabin: Religion and the Politics of Painting’, Eire-Ireland, Vol. 40: 1&2, Earrach/Samhradh/ Spring/Summer 2005; Aloysius O’Kelly: Art, Nation, Empire, Dublin, Field Day Publications, University of Notre Dame, 2010 €20,000-€30,000 (£17,390-£26,090 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot18