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Jerome Connor (1874-1943)
Estimate:
€2,000 - €3,000
Sold
€2,000
Live Auction
Irish & International Art Auction
ARTIST
Jerome Connor (1874-1943)
Size
8 by 6.50 by 5in. (20.3 by 16.5 by 12.7cm)
Description
Title: MARJORIE, 1932
Note: The Connors paid an extended visit to Italy around 1905 and then, about the time their only child Marjorie (Peggy) was born. They settled in Washington DC, where Connor worked on a series of major public commissions from 1911 onwards.In parallel with these public works, he produced many smaller portrait studies often of members of his own extended family. Several can be identified, including studies of Anne and of their daughter Peggy at different ages. Sometimes unknown to his clients he would also include such portrait in public commissions. His mother was immortalised in this way in the 1924 Washington Angles of the Battlefield Memorial. This bronze is a replication of one of Connors few works in marble, a portrait of his Peggy made probably in Washington about 1930. As was normal practice the design was initially conceived in clay, reproduced in plaster, and then executed in marble, taking the exact measurements from the original as required. In this approach Connor differed from younger Irish contemporaries such as Albert Power and Séamus Murphy, who adopted the practice of designing in the final medium, known as 'direct carving'.
Note: The Connors paid an extended visit to Italy around 1905 and then, about the time their only child Marjorie (Peggy) was born. They settled in Washington DC, where Connor worked on a series of major public commissions from 1911 onwards.In parallel with these public works, he produced many smaller portrait studies often of members of his own extended family. Several can be identified, including studies of Anne and of their daughter Peggy at different ages. Sometimes unknown to his clients he would also include such portrait in public commissions. His mother was immortalised in this way in the 1924 Washington Angles of the Battlefield Memorial. This bronze is a replication of one of Connors few works in marble, a portrait of his Peggy made probably in Washington about 1930. As was normal practice the design was initially conceived in clay, reproduced in plaster, and then executed in marble, taking the exact measurements from the original as required. In this approach Connor differed from younger Irish contemporaries such as Albert Power and Séamus Murphy, who adopted the practice of designing in the final medium, known as 'direct carving'.
Medium
bronze on polished limestone base
Signature
signed and dated lower right
