CHATSWORTH SUMMER FINE ART SALE May 28th & 29th 2024

104 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 884 884. Harry Kernoff, RHA (1900-1974) “St. Michaels Hill, Wine Tavern St., Dublin, 1934,” black and white Print, Signed, approx. 32cms x 35cms (12½” x 14”) in ebonised frame. (1) Provenance: Collection of Thomas Teevan, Dublin. A distinguished lawyer and judge, Thomas Teevan served as Attorney General of Ireland in 1953-54. €200 - €300 886. Harry Kernoff, Irish (1900-1974) “A Bird Never flew on one Wing or Alcoholics Anonymous,” cold. print, Signed in green pen by the artist, with wide border, approx. 40cms x 40cms (16” x 16”) recent gilt frame. (1) €300 - €400 “Stamer Street, Portobello, Dublin,”O.O.B., approx. 38cms x 50cms (15” x 20”), Signed l.l. ‘Kernoff’. (1) Best-known for his paintings and woodcuts depicting the streets, pubs and parks of Dublin, Harry Kernoff was perhaps the leading visual chronicler of everyday life in Ireland during the twentieth century. Kernoff bore witness to the city, its environs and its citizens. He painted scenes of poverty and unemployment, of people at work and play, and in many ways his paintings are a visual counterpart of the characters and situations in James Joyce’s novel Ulysses. Unlike the artist John Lavery, Kernoff rarely painted scenes of wealth and luxury living, nor did he make a comfortable living from his art. This view of Stamer Street in Portobello, close to the Grand Canal in Dublin’s South inner city, is of particular significance in Kernoff’s life, as his family home was at No. 13. Situated in Dublin’s Jewish quarter and named after Sir William Stamer, an early nineteenth-century Lord Mayor of Dublin, the late Victorian street is lined with handsome red-brick houses. The steps and wrought- iron railings on the lower left are those of the Kernoff house, and this painting depicts a scene that the artist would have seen on a daily basis, from his early teenage years, through his training at the Metropolitan School of Art, and over the years following, as he worked as an artist. Born into a family that had fled pogroms in Belarus, Harry Kernoff’s father, Isaac Kernoff, set up as a cabinet maker in London. Harry’s mother Katherine Abarbanel was descended from an old Sephardic family. When Harry was fourteen years old, the family moved from Stepney to Dublin, where Isaac joined the cabinet-making firm of Louis Gurevich, on Capel Street. The family lived at 13 Stamer Street, and while serving an apprenticeship with his father, Kernoff also attended evening classes at the Metropolitan School of Art, along with his brother Hyman. In 1923, a Taylor Scholarship enabled him to visit Paris, and also to enroll as a full time student at the Metropolitan School, where his teachers included Sean Keating, Patrick Tuohy and Harry Clarke. In 1926, the first exhibition of Kernoff’s work was held, at the Society of Dublin Painters, at 7 Stephen’s Green. Over the following years he showed frequently with the Dublin Painters, and also participated in group exhibitions, both in Ireland and abroad; his work being shown in London, Paris, Chicago and other cities. From 1926 onwards, for almost five decades, he exhibited annually at the RHA, and he also had two solo shows with the Victor Waddington Galleries. In 1939 he travelled to New York, to paint a mural for the Irish Pavilion at the World’s Fair. Peter Murray 2024 Provenance: Collection of Thomas Teevan, Dublin. A distinguished lawyer and judge, Thomas Teevan served as Attorney General of Ireland in 1953-54. €4000 - €5000 888. Harry Kernoff (1900-1974)