Adam's The Antoinette and Patrick J.Murphy Collection 23rd October 2019

191 www.adams.ie The Antoinette & Patrick J. Murphy Collection | 23rd October2019 186 MARY SWANZY HRHA (1882-1978) Death of a Mannequin Oil on board, 42 x 23cm (16.5 x 9 “) Signed and dated (19)’44 Provenance: With The Dawson Gallery, Dublin. € 3,000 - 5,000 The impact of the third war in Swanzy’s lifetime and the shifting post-war social conditions became the focus of her brush from the mid forties into the 1960s. In the manner of Blake or Hogarth she adopts a commentary on declining standards of behavior as evidenced in this painting of the mannequin, a theme she revisited in a number of paintings. Her views on the limits placed on women were forthright in late old age when she stated her life would have been very different had she been a Henry and not a Mary. Liz Cullinane, September 2019