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Harry Aaron Kernoff RHA (1900-1974) Off Baggot Street, Ballsbridge (1943)signed & dated ‘Kernoff ‘43’ lower right
watercolour
27.5 x 38cm (11 x 15in)
Provenance:
Purchased from the artist c.1970-71 directly from the artist at his studio in 13 Stamer St., Dublin 8.
Sotheby’s Irish Art Sale, London 7th May 2008 Lot 164
Private Collection
€8,000-10,000 (£6,250-7,812)
Harry Aaron Kernoff was born in London in 1900 of English/Russian extraction. Having moved to Dublin, Kernoff became a lead-
ing figure in Irish modernism. Influenced by Seán Keating, Kernoff painted the Irish landscape, genre scenes, and portraits and is
primarily remembered for his sympathetic interest in Dublin and its people. He depicted street scenes, as well as Dublin landmarks
with sympathy and understanding. Kernoff spent the vast majority of his life unappreciated, and made little or nothing from his
paintings until a few years before his death, when he began to be appreciated by contemporary critics.