Irish & International Art 10th April 2017 : Click Lot Title for More info & Pictures.

signed top right

pastel on paper

35.5 x 26cm (14 x 10in)

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De Vere’s, Dublin, 29th November 2006 Lot 95;

Private Collection

€3,000-5,000 (£2,608-4,347)

Harry Aaron Kernoff was born in London in 1900 of English/Russian extraction. Having moved to Dublin, Kernoff became a

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and is primarily remembered for his sympathetic interest in Dublin and its people as seen here in his depiction of James Joyce. He

painted 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.