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Isa M. “Mac” Macnie (1869-1958)
Estimate:
€1,500 - €2,500
Sold
€3,200
Live Auction
The Ernie O'Malley Collection in association with Christie's
Size
11 by 8in. (27.9 by 20.3cm)
Description
Title: 'CHIN ANGLES OR HOW THE POETS PASSED', W.B. YEATS AND GEORGE (AE) RUSSELL
Note: The cartoon depicts W.B. Yeats and AE Russell walking past 83 Merrion Square to visit one another without seeing each other. It has been reproduced extensively; was referred to in Sean Piondar’s March 1945 Questionnaires to Celebrities No. 24 “Mac”, published in some magazines, such as the Dublin Magazine, pp. 3-4 as well as Frank Bouchier Hayes’ article on ‘The rich and varied life of a forgotten Dublin Cartoonist’ on 5 March, 2010 in Pue’s Occurrences.
Note: The cartoon depicts W.B. Yeats and AE Russell walking past 83 Merrion Square to visit one another without seeing each other. It has been reproduced extensively; was referred to in Sean Piondar’s March 1945 Questionnaires to Celebrities No. 24 “Mac”, published in some magazines, such as the Dublin Magazine, pp. 3-4 as well as Frank Bouchier Hayes’ article on ‘The rich and varied life of a forgotten Dublin Cartoonist’ on 5 March, 2010 in Pue’s Occurrences.
Medium
pen, ink and watercolour on paper
Signature
signed [Mac] lower right
Provenance
Acquired by Ernie O'Malley, mid 1940s;
Thence by family descent
Literature
Published initially in the New York Times, then the Irish Independent (26 Sep 1924) and then in the American Forum;
Oliver St. John Gogarty’s memoir, As I walked Down Sackville Street (1937)
