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52 THE TREASURE OF THE GARDEN. ONE OF JACK B. YEATS’S PLAYS FOR THE MINIATURE STAGE. Coloured by the Author.

London, Elkin Mathews, 1902, original quarto blue

hand-coloured wrappers with a design of a pirate.

The seven full-page plates towards rear and front

cover illustration of a pirate all hand-coloured by the

artist, 190 x 224mm. A very good clean copy, with

library stamp of Ray Da Silva.

€ 1,000 - 1,500

53 JACK B. YEATS: A CATALOGUE RAISONNE OF THE OIL PAINTINGS BY HILARY PYLE, Limited First Edition,

three volumes in slipcase, No.262/1500.

Fine unopened condition.

€ 300 - 500

54 MAURICE MACGONIGAL PRHA (1900-1979) Quiet in the Harbour, Roundstone, Connemara

Oil on board, 51 x 76cm (20 x 30’’)

Signed, also signed, inscribed and dated 1972 verso

€ 5,000 - 8,000

Maurice MacGonigal was apprenticed to his uncle Joshua Clarke’s glass studio in his hometown of Dublin at the age of fifteen, where his cousin Harry Clarke gave him much encourage-

ment. Politically active in his youth, he joined the first Na Fianna Éireann in 1917, being interned first in Kilmainhal Gaol and then Ballykinlar Camp, Co. Down. When released from intern-

ment in 1921, MacGonigal returned to the Clarke studio before he won a scholarship to the Metropolitan School of Art where he studied painting under Sean Keating, Patrick Touhy and

James Sinton Sleator. He subsequently taught at the school for over thirty years (later the National College of Art) and became professor of painting.

MacGonigal’s association with the RHA began in 1924, and he exhibited annually, being elected a full member of in 1933. He succeeded his former tutor Sean Keating as president of the

academy in 1962, retaining the position until two years before his death. As well as exhibiting at the RHA he showed regularly at the Dawson and Taylor Galleries, and in 1991 a posthu-

mous retrospective was held at the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin.

MacGonigal was known not only for his painting but also his set designs for the Abbey Theatre, book illustrations, posters for the Irish Army and a mural he produced in 1939 for the New

York World’s Fair in 1939. His works can be found the collections of the National Gallery of Ireland, Hugh Lane, Crawford Gallery and Ulster Museum