Adam's IMPORTANT IRISH ART 31 MAY 2023

44 28 ALOYSIUS O’KELLY RHA (1853-1936) Mass in a Connemara Cabin Monochrome watercolour and bodycolour, 19.5 x 27.5cm (7¾ x 10¾”) Signed and inscribed verso; Also inscribed: “The Duchess of Connaught presenting new colours to the 4th Oxfordshire Light Infantry at Alalish(?) on Friday”. Provenance: Christie’s London, lot 181, 15 Dec. 1994, where purchased by the present owner. Exhibited: Dublin, Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, 1999-2000, No. 1 Literature: Niamh O’Sullivan, Re-orientations. Aloysius O’Kelly: Painting, Politics and Popular Culture , Dublin, 1999. €3,000 - 5,000 The full scale version of this painting is currently on loan to the National Gallery of Ireland from the people of St Patrick’s, Edinburgh and the Trustees of the Archdiocese of St Andrew’s and Edinburgh.