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Evie Hone HRHA (1894 - 1955)
4 Elements
Oil on canvas, 73.5 x 61cm (29 x 24”)
Signed, also signed verso
Provenance:The collection of the artist Barbara Warren; Private collection, Dublin
Exhibited:
20th Century Irish Paintings Exhibition for the Opening of the New Millennium Wing
, National
Gallery of Ireland, January 2002-January 2004;
The Collectors Eye Exhibtion
, Model Arts and Niland Gallery, Sligo, Jan/Feb 2004;
The Hunt Museum, Limerick, March-April 2004, cat.no.12;
Evie Hone (1894-1955) A Pioneering Artist
, National Gallery of Ireland, Dec 2005-July 2006; and
Analysing Cubism
travelling exhibition, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Feb-May 2013, Crawford
Gallery Cork June-Sept 2013
Literature:
Collectors Eye
2004, illustrated p.7;
Analysing Cubism
Irish Museum of Modern Art 2013, full page illustration p.117
Muriel Hone, a distant relative of Evie Hone and her biographer, has written of this painting:
“Evie Hone studied in Paris with Albert Gleizes from 1921 and this painting is likely to have been hung in the
1924 exhibition held jointly with Mainie Jellett in Dublin. The outline of a dark tilted chalice dominates the
centre, leading towards the upper left element where the colouring suggests a Garden of Gethsemane theme;
diagonally to the lower right the stepped base of the chalice is repeated in steps to the upright of the Cross in
daylight.The lower left element implies mourners who will bring unguents in jars for the burial in the top right
element. An ‘eye of the needle’ symbolises the narrow entrance to the tomb. Emotions are conveyed throughout
the composition - by yellow for Hope, in the garden - by deep pink, crimson and cyclamen for Love between
victim and sympathisers - by black for grief.”
€20,000 - 30,000
