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161 Jerome Connor (1876-1943)
Head of a Mourning Mother
Bronze, 16cm (6¼”)
Provenance: From the collection of RHA President, the
artist Dermod O’Brien PRHA and thence by decent
from whom acquired by a Private Collection Dublin.
There is a hand written note inside by the artist Brigid
Ganly (Dermod O’Briens daughter) stating that this
was one of the artist’s concepts for the Lusitania Memo-
rial obviously replacing one of the mourning fishermen,
the head of whom adopts a similar pose.There is a bigger
version of this piece which was in the Digby Collection
(Capuchin Annual 1965)
€2,000 - 3,000
