72 / 116
72
59 Breon O’Casey (1928-2011)Dove
Silvered alloy, 8.5 x 10cm (3½ x 4”)
Impressed with initials to base
€800 - €1,200
A multi-faceted artist, O’Casey worked as a jeweller, weaver, etcher, printmaker, engraver,
painter and sculptor. Son of author Sean O’Casey, he was educated at the Dartington
Hall School, where there were paintings by Christopher Wood and Ben Nicholson and a
Henry Moore reclining figure in the gardens. He came to St Ives in 1959 and moved to
his mother’s native Mayo in the 1990’s.
Fig. 20. Breon and Doreen O’Casey with Nancy, Ballard House, 1995