Irish & International Art 25th April 2016 : Click Lot Title for More info & Pictures.

monogrammed Æ lower right & titled on reverse

oil on canvas

35.75 x 41cm (14 x 16in)

Provenance:

James Wray Gallery, Belfast

Private Collection

€2,000-3,000 (£1,562-2,343)

George William Russell was born in Lurgan, County Armagh in 1867 but his family relocated to Dublin when he was eleven years

old. He was educated at Rathmines School and the Metropolitan School of Art. Russell’s interests were wide-ranging; he became

a theosophist and wrote extensively on politics and economics, while continuing to paint and write poetry. Russell claimed to be a

clairvoyant, able to view various kinds of spiritual beings, which he illustrated in his paintings and drawings. Russell wrote with the

pseudonym Æ (sometimes written AE or A.E.).