CHATSWORTH SUMMER FINE ART SALE 18th & 19th June 2025

61 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 631. JosephWilliam Carey, ARUA (1859-1937) “Stacking Turf,”watercolour, approx. 25cms x 36cms (10” x 14”), Signed and dated lower left, mounted gilt frame. (1) €300 - €400 632. Stan McMurty ‘Mac’ (b. 1936) “W.B. Yeats and George Moore Passing Each Other,” c. 1965, Ink and wash on paper, Signed l.r. with monogram‘Mac’, approx. 27cms x 33cms (10 ½” x 13”). (1) Inscribed ‘Chin-angles, Or – How the Poets Passed. The story is told in Dublin that W. B. Yeats and George Russell (“AE”) set out respectively from 82 and 84 Merrion Square to see each other . . . and passed at 83! The Above Shows How it Happened.’ The inscription on this cartoon succinctly describes the possibly apocryphal story of how W. B. Yeats, his ‘head in the clouds’, passed his neighbour George Moore, who was looking down at the pavement. Neither man saw the other. Moore had set out with the intention of visiting Yeats, and vice versa. They duly knocked on each other’s doors, and, when there was no answer, returned to their respective houses, again oblivious to each other’s presence. Born in 1936, the cartoonist ‘Mac’ initially worked as a cartoon film animator. In 1969 he began to work for the Daily Sketch, a newspaper that was taken over in 1971 by the Daily Mail. He then worked for the Daily Mail, retiring in 2018. The following year he began to contribute cartoons for the Mail on Sunday. Dr. Peter Murray 2025 €800 - €1200 625. Thomas Ryan PRHA (1929-2021) “Imeacht na nIarlai, 1608,” (The Departure of O’Neill out of Ireland,) 1958 watercolour on paper, Signed l.r. ‘Thomas Ryan’ and inscribed l.l. ‘Lrucacht na nIarlaí, approx. 30cms x 40cms (12” x 16”). (1) A detailed study for Tom Ryan’s large oil painting, The Departure of O’Neill out of Ireland, this sparkling watercolour is inscribed ‘Lrucacht na nIarlaí’ (‘The Earls Misery’). A spirited work of art, it depicts a momentous event in Irish history, when, in 1607, a group of Irish aristocrats , led by Rory O’Donnell, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, and Hugh O’Neill, Earl of Tyrone, boarded ship at Rathmullan, bound for the Continent. Their flight into exile symbolized the end of Gaelic Ireland, and the triumph of the Tudor conquest. Conceived in the grand style, with lances, suits of armour and banners, Ryan’s painting recalls the work of Velasquez and Titian. In the foreground, people lament the departure of the Earls, while a monk raises his hand in blessing. Having grown up in Limerick, the city where Sean Keating had first studied art, Thomas Ryan began his training under the local teacher Richard Butcher. He then enrolled in the National College of Art in Dublin, where his teachers included Keating and Maurice MacGonigal. Elected President of the Royal Hibernian Academy, in the 1980’s he was instrumental in the building of the RHA Gallagher Gallery on Ely Place. His early paintings from the 1950’s are strong Realist canvases, depicting scenes such as his mother standing at the kitchen sink, or a jazz trumpeter. Always an ambitious artist, aged 28, Ryan painted The Departure of O’Neill out of Ireland. Another canvas by him depicted the interior of the GPO during the Easter Rising. Always a sensitive painter, in later years, while he received many commissions for portraits of members of the clergy, judiciary and leading business figures, it was his still-lifes of flowers, atmospheric studies of interiors such as Marshes Library, and watercolours such as this, that form perhaps his most telling legacy in Irish art. This watercolour sketch for The Flight of O’Neill Out of Ireland shows the artist’s development of the complex composition. The finished painting was completed the year after the 350th anniversary of the Flight of the Earls, and displayed in the State Apartments, Dublin Castle. Dr. Peter Murray 2025 €1500 - €2000 630 632