Artist: Harry Kernoff RHA (1900-1974) Title: Connemara Girl (1954) Medium: watercolour Size: 59 x 49cm (23 x 19in) Signature: signed lower right & dated '54 Provenance: The People's Gallery, Cork Private Collection More info: Click to read more about this lot Harry Aaron Kernoff was born in London in 1900. Kernoff moved to Dublin and became a leading figure in Irish modernism. Influenced by Seán Keating, Kernoff painted the Irish landscape, genre scenes, and portraits. In 1930, Kernoff visited the Soviet Union as part of an Irish delegation from the friends of Soviet Russia led by Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington. While visiting, he was influenced by the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia. Kernoff spent the vast majority of his life unappreciated, and made little or nothing from his paintings until a few years before his death, when he began to be appreciated by contemporary critics.
Artist: Harry Kernoff RHA (1900-1974) Title: Connemara Girl (1954) Medium: watercolour Size: 59 x 49cm (23 x 19in) Signature: signed lower right & dated '54 Provenance: The People's Gallery, Cork Private Collection More info: Click to read more about this lot Harry Aaron Kernoff was born in London in 1900. Kernoff moved to Dublin and became a leading figure in Irish modernism. Influenced by Seán Keating, Kernoff painted the Irish landscape, genre scenes, and portraits. In 1930, Kernoff visited the Soviet Union as part of an Irish delegation from the friends of Soviet Russia led by Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington. While visiting, he was influenced by the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia. Kernoff spent the vast majority of his life unappreciated, and made little or nothing from his paintings until a few years before his death, when he began to be appreciated by contemporary critics.
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