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Harry Kernoff RHA (1900-1974)
PORTRAIT OF LIAM O'FLAHERTY
signed and dated [1933] lower left
oil on panel
51 by 38cm., 20 by 15in.
Provenance:
The Godolphin Gallery
Private Collection, Dublin.
Exhibited:
Oireachtas Art Exhibition 1963, no. 64, as "Liam Ó Flatharta"
Godolphin Gallery, 1975, as "Liam O'Flaherty".
Liam O'Flaherty (1896-1984) was a novelist and short story writer. Born on a small farm on Inishmore, Aran Islands, (which forms the background to this portrait) he was educated at Rockwell College and UCD as a seminarian. He forsook the church for the army in 1915 and was invalided out in 1917. After wandering around North and South America and working in a great variety of jobs he took to writing in 1922 and published his first novel Thy Neighbour's Wife in 1923. He is best remembered for The Informer (1925), awarded the James Tait Black Prize and made into a successful film (1935), Skerret (1932), Famine (1937), his various short stories, of which there are over 150, including a collection in Irish, Dúil (1953).
Kernoff became involved with Liam O'Flaherty and his brother Tom through his membership of The Radical Club which they had founded. It was in the Radical Club that he was introduced to and joined The Studio Art Club which held an exhibition at Daniel Egan's in 1926 at which Kernoff was well represented. O'Flaherty was also a member of the Communist Party - he accompanied a group of unemployed dockers that occupied the Rotunda for four days in 1922 - and he was probably the influence that led to Kernoff's membership of the Friends of Soviet Russia and his membership of a delegation to visit Russia in 1930. Kernoff designed the masthead of Irish Workers Voice, the Communist Party's journal and to which he also contributed several pen sketches of political personalities of the time.
€15,000-€20,000 (IR £11,700-£15,600 approx.)
Auction Location:
United Kingdom
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