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Raoul Dufy (French, 1877-1953)
Estimate:
€20,000 - €30,000
Passed
Live Auction
Irish & International Art
Size
19.25 by 23.50in. (48.9 by 59.7cm)
Description
Title: A PARK CORNER
Note: The R. Schmit receipt accompanies this picture.The previous owner, Charles Bewley, (1888-1969), was born into a wealthy family, the eldest of four brothers, in Dublin, Ireland. His mother was Elizabeth Eveleen Pim. Her family owned a large department store in George's Street, Dublin. His father was physician Dr. Henry Theodore Bewley (1860-1945), related to the family that operated the successful "Bewley's cafés" chain of coffee houses in Dublin that is still famous today.He was educated in England, where he read Law at OxfordHe proceeded to New College, Oxford, where he read Law. IHe completed his training as a barrister at King's Inns, Dublin, and in 1914 he was called to the bar.Charles Bewley was seen as an "enfant terrible". He rejected his Anglo-Irish heritage and embraced Celtic mythology of the kind popularised by W. B. Yeats. He spoke against the 'evils of Anglicization', supported the Boers and converted from being a Quaker to Roman Catholicism. He rejected Unionist politics and supported the Home Rule movement.From 1914 he was a defending barrister for many nationalists and republicans. He wrote Seán Mac Eoin's death-sentence speech. In the 1918 general election he stood, unsuccessfully, as a Sinn Féin candidate. During the Irish civil war, he took the Treaty side.Between the truce in the Irish War of Independence and the treaty being signed, he was Irish consul in Berlin with responsibility for trade. He was appointed Irish envoy to the Vatican in 1929. Bewley was the "Irish Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary" in Berlin in the crucial years from 1933 to 1939. After the war he lived in Italy, writing for various publications. He died in Rome in 1969.
Note: The R. Schmit receipt accompanies this picture.The previous owner, Charles Bewley, (1888-1969), was born into a wealthy family, the eldest of four brothers, in Dublin, Ireland. His mother was Elizabeth Eveleen Pim. Her family owned a large department store in George's Street, Dublin. His father was physician Dr. Henry Theodore Bewley (1860-1945), related to the family that operated the successful "Bewley's cafés" chain of coffee houses in Dublin that is still famous today.He was educated in England, where he read Law at OxfordHe proceeded to New College, Oxford, where he read Law. IHe completed his training as a barrister at King's Inns, Dublin, and in 1914 he was called to the bar.Charles Bewley was seen as an "enfant terrible". He rejected his Anglo-Irish heritage and embraced Celtic mythology of the kind popularised by W. B. Yeats. He spoke against the 'evils of Anglicization', supported the Boers and converted from being a Quaker to Roman Catholicism. He rejected Unionist politics and supported the Home Rule movement.From 1914 he was a defending barrister for many nationalists and republicans. He wrote Seán Mac Eoin's death-sentence speech. In the 1918 general election he stood, unsuccessfully, as a Sinn Féin candidate. During the Irish civil war, he took the Treaty side.Between the truce in the Irish War of Independence and the treaty being signed, he was Irish consul in Berlin with responsibility for trade. He was appointed Irish envoy to the Vatican in 1929. Bewley was the "Irish Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary" in Berlin in the crucial years from 1933 to 1939. After the war he lived in Italy, writing for various publications. He died in Rome in 1969.
Medium
watercolour
Signature
signed lower right
Provenance
R. Schmit, Paris, 1963;Collection of Charles Bewley;Private collection
