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George Russell ("Æ") (1867-1935)
Estimate:
€4,000 - €6,000
Sold
€4,100
Live Auction
Important Irish Art - 26 November 2018
Size
16 by 21in. (40.6 by 53.3cm)
Description
Title: FLIGHT
Note: In the original frame of Arthur Staples, 201 High Road, Kilburn, NW London. The former owner of this painting was the publisher, poet and artist, Desmond Harmsworth, 2nd Baron Harmsworth. Born in 1903, he was educated at Eton and Christchurch College Oxford. A confidant of such authors as James Joyce and Wyndham Lewis, he published both theirworks, including Joyce’s Pomes Penyeach and Lewis’ The Enemy of the Stars and Thirty Personalities and a Self-Portrait. During the 1930s he followed in the footsteps of Gauguin, painting in Tahiti. His daughter, the Hon. Margaret Philips (1928-2007), was likewise artistically inclined; she studied sculpture and lived and worked in Paris.
Note: In the original frame of Arthur Staples, 201 High Road, Kilburn, NW London. The former owner of this painting was the publisher, poet and artist, Desmond Harmsworth, 2nd Baron Harmsworth. Born in 1903, he was educated at Eton and Christchurch College Oxford. A confidant of such authors as James Joyce and Wyndham Lewis, he published both theirworks, including Joyce’s Pomes Penyeach and Lewis’ The Enemy of the Stars and Thirty Personalities and a Self-Portrait. During the 1930s he followed in the footsteps of Gauguin, painting in Tahiti. His daughter, the Hon. Margaret Philips (1928-2007), was likewise artistically inclined; she studied sculpture and lived and worked in Paris.
Medium
oil on canvas
Signature
inscribed with title and framing instructions on reverse; also with Arthur Staples [London] framing label preserved on reverse
Provenance
Lord Harmsworth, Lime Lodge, Egham, Surrey; Private collection;Whyte's, 18 May 2009, lot 96;Private collection
