Adam's IMPORTANT IRISH ART 8th December 2021

www.adams.ie Important Irish Art | 8 th December 2021 107 82 JEROME CONNOR (1876-1943) Peace (1939) Bronze, raised on a sculpted marble plinth, 24.5cm high (9½’’) Signed, inscribed and dated on plinth This is one of a number of studies on the theme of Peace , linked to the second and third of four designs drawn up by Connor for the Lusitania Memorial’s Angel of Peace . It also recalls the veiled, allegorical figure of Peace which, with a figure of Patriotism, flanks the Angels of the Battlefield public memorial in Washington DC which Connor executed in 1924. Anastasia Balfe is the model. € 6,000 - 10,000