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Evie Hone (1894-1955) COMPOSITION IN YELLOW

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Evie Hone (1894-1955) COMPOSITION IN YELLOW

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Auction Date:2005 Apr 26 @ 18:00 (UTC)
Location:Dublin, Ireland
Evie Hone (1894-1955) COMPOSITION IN YELLOW<BR>signed lower right; with extensive colour and composition notes on reverse<BR>gouache over pencil on board<BR>25 by 20cm., 10 by 8in.<BR><BR>Provenance:<BR>Dawson Gallery, Dublin;<BR>Whence purchased by Kitty Wilmer O’Brien RHA;<BR>Pyms Gallery, London;<BR>Private collection<BR><BR>Exhibited:<BR>’Irish Renascence: Irish Art in a Century of Change’, Pyms Gallery, London, 3-29 November 1986, catalogue no. 41 (illustrated)<BR><BR>The presence of the grey border and lines in this work dates it to the mid-1930s. The cubist painter Albert Gleizes first experimented with such a border in March 1934 in an attempt to achieve a sense of austerity and unity in his work, similar to that associated with medieval art. Gleizes called this grey bounding line a cadence, as it harmonised with the contrasting colours contained within its contours, and later described the discovery as the greatest moment of his life. Given the equitable relationship between Gleizes and his Irish disciples Hone and Jellett, whereby they studied together and shared with one another any new developments in their work, it is to be fully expected that Hone would at least experiment with integrating the grey cadence into her own work.<BR>