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signed lower right
gouache on card
26 x 21cm (10 x 8in)
3URYHQDQFH Collection of Mrs. Brendan O’Brien;
Dawson Gallery, Dublin (label verso);
Private Collection
€3,000-4,000 (£2,608-3,478)
Very few of Hone’s paintings from the early 1920s have survived, which adds to the mystery surrounding her Cubist style.
However, in the pieces that do remain, it is clear that Hone’s style was more spontaneous and abstract than Jellett’s. Hone and
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of Hone’s works do not clearly reference a hidden subject, and she did not choose to explain her works as clearly as Jellett.
Composition, looks very similar to Jellett’s Homage to Fra Angelico, and was painted about the same time. However, the elements
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own meaning, and resulted in a collection of fantastically abstract paintings.