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Statuettes
Oil on canvas, 38.4 x 48.5cm (15¼ x 19 ¼”)
Signed
Provenance:
J. J. Gorry Trade Label verso dated (19)21; handwritten artist’s label verso.
Exhibited:
1921, Dublin, Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition Catalogue No. 196
€600 - 1,000
Oil on board, 46.5 x 37.5cm (18¼ x 14¾”)
Signed
Provenance: The Dawson Gallery, Dublin, where purchased by Mrs Philip Feldblum
This work shows a still life on the window sill of Leech’s studio at Candy Cottage. More intimate in scale than a lot of Leech’s other still life works, it was painted during the fi-
nal happy decade of his life. Leech finally married his lifelong partner and muse, May Botterell in 1953, and in 1958 they bought Candy Cottage together. Candy Cottage was
an idyllic Tudor-style cottage with diamond-paned mullioned windows with a pretty garden in which Leech built his new studio. Although in his late seventies at this point,
Leech continued working and he was still able to catch the light and vibrancy of colour which is evident in the current picture.
We thank Dr Denise Ferran whose writings on Leech formed the basis of this catalogue entry.
€6,000 - 8,000