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Brenda Williams (1911-1986)
Estimate:
€2,000 - €3,000
Sold
€5,000
Live Auction
Irish & International Art Auction
ARTIST
Brenda Williams (1911-1986)
Size
13.50 by 7 by 8in. (34.3 by 17.8 by 20.3cm)
Description
Title: BUST OF CLARE (DAUGHTER OF BRENDA, AGE 9), 1957
Note: Brenda Williams (née Gogarty) was the daughter of Oliver St. John Gogarty. See lots 18 & 19 for further biographical details and a portrait of Brenda by Gerald Leslie Brockhurst RA (1890-1978).Also included with this lot are two albums containing family photographs, newspaper clippings, a photographic record with notes of her work including images of her busts of her father, Oliver St. John Gogarty, poets W.B. Yeats and Frederick Robert Higgins, Eric Earle Shipton, CBE an English Himalayan mountaineer or "explorer" as Brenda describes him, heir to part of the Guinness family brewing fortune, lawyer, poet and novelist Bryan Walter Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne, Phyllis Browne, wife of Dr Noel Browne and her husband Desmond (1908-1970) Williams. A photograph of a portrait in oil of Brenda by Augustus John also features. A letter from Cottie Yeats (wife of Jack B. Yeats) on her headed paper [18 Fitzwilliam Square Dublin] details arrangements to view the bronze of her husband and mentioning his impending trip to a family funeral in Sligo while a letter from Jack B. Yeats himself (illustrated, and dated 11 February 1937) confirms he will see the bust (tomorrow at 10.30) but will not stay for lunch. Desmond Williams - Brenda's husband - was former chairman and managing director of the Tullamore Distillery, D.E. Williams Ltd. They were married on 27 April 1945 and had two children Gary St. John Williams, the former Irish racehorse trainer and a daughter Clare Williams. Brenda exhibited with the RHA in 1937 (bust of Jack B. Yeats) and 1938 with an address recorded at 15 Ely Place Dublin and 1941 her address given was Renvyle House, Connemara. Ephemera relating to a joint exhibition of sculpture (alongside illustrations by Olivia Robertson) at The Country Shop, St. Stephen's Green, Dublin, 14-19 November, 1938 is included as well as newspaper reviews one of which reads: "Imagination and the power of representing people as they are ought to bring Brenda Gogarty far as a sculpture". Brenda death was recorded in the Irish Independent, Thursday 25 September 1986.
Note: Brenda Williams (née Gogarty) was the daughter of Oliver St. John Gogarty. See lots 18 & 19 for further biographical details and a portrait of Brenda by Gerald Leslie Brockhurst RA (1890-1978).Also included with this lot are two albums containing family photographs, newspaper clippings, a photographic record with notes of her work including images of her busts of her father, Oliver St. John Gogarty, poets W.B. Yeats and Frederick Robert Higgins, Eric Earle Shipton, CBE an English Himalayan mountaineer or "explorer" as Brenda describes him, heir to part of the Guinness family brewing fortune, lawyer, poet and novelist Bryan Walter Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne, Phyllis Browne, wife of Dr Noel Browne and her husband Desmond (1908-1970) Williams. A photograph of a portrait in oil of Brenda by Augustus John also features. A letter from Cottie Yeats (wife of Jack B. Yeats) on her headed paper [18 Fitzwilliam Square Dublin] details arrangements to view the bronze of her husband and mentioning his impending trip to a family funeral in Sligo while a letter from Jack B. Yeats himself (illustrated, and dated 11 February 1937) confirms he will see the bust (tomorrow at 10.30) but will not stay for lunch. Desmond Williams - Brenda's husband - was former chairman and managing director of the Tullamore Distillery, D.E. Williams Ltd. They were married on 27 April 1945 and had two children Gary St. John Williams, the former Irish racehorse trainer and a daughter Clare Williams. Brenda exhibited with the RHA in 1937 (bust of Jack B. Yeats) and 1938 with an address recorded at 15 Ely Place Dublin and 1941 her address given was Renvyle House, Connemara. Ephemera relating to a joint exhibition of sculpture (alongside illustrations by Olivia Robertson) at The Country Shop, St. Stephen's Green, Dublin, 14-19 November, 1938 is included as well as newspaper reviews one of which reads: "Imagination and the power of representing people as they are ought to bring Brenda Gogarty far as a sculpture". Brenda death was recorded in the Irish Independent, Thursday 25 September 1986.
Medium
bronze
Signature
signed with initials and inscribed [Clare, Age 9] lower left
Provenance
Collection of the sitter;Her estate sale;Whence acquired by the present owners
