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Important Irish Art
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wednesday 1st October 2014 at 6pm
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Jerome Connor (1876-1943)
Statia
Bronze, 24cm high (9½”)
Signed
Provenance: Purchased through the Victor Waddington Galleries
16/12/40 by J.P. Reihill Snr; Deepwell, Blackrock, Co. Dublin
Exhibited:
Irish Art from Private Collections 1870-1930
,
Wexford Arts Centre, 1977, Cat. No. 4
Jerome Connor
, Annascaul, April/May 1988
Jerome Connor, Irish-American Sculptor
, National
Gallery of Ireland, Feb/Mar 1993, Cat. No 10f
Literature: Máirín Allen
, Jerome Connor-Two, Capuchin Annual
1964, pp353-69 (illustration p367)
Giollamuire Ó Murchú,
Jerome Connor, Irish-
American Sculptor,
NGI, p56
This is a portrait study of Anastatia Balfe whom Connor
employed as a cook and housekeeper after his wife and daughter
returned to America to live.
Statia
prepared his meals, tidied his
house and sometimes posed for him and it was she who was
Connor’s final model for the Angel of Peace which surmounted
the Lusitania Memorial. Connor felt something of a father
figure to her and even went so far as to ask his solicitor to
arrange some sort of formal adoption. She stayed with him until
her marriage.
€2,000 - 4,000
The Deepwell Collection
