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

gouache on card

58.5 x 46cm (23 x 18in)

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Taylor Galleries, Dublin 1984 (label verso);

Collection of Finbarr & Moyra O’Donovan

€5,000-7,000 (£4,347-6,086)

Evie Hone (1894-1955) was a Dublin born Irish painter and stained glass artist. She was related to Nathaniel Hone. Her most

important works are probably the East Window for the Chapel at Eton College, Windsor, England (1949-1952) and My Four

Green Fields, now located in Government Buildings. They were commissioned for the Irish Government’s Pavilion at the 1939

New York World’s Fair. Like her companion Mainie Jellett, Evie Hone studied under Walter Sickert at the Westminster Technical

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modern movement in Ireland, she was one of the founders of the Irish Exhibition of Living Art. Evie Hone was extremely devout;

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begin working in stained glass. Initially she worked as a member of the stained glass co-operative An Túr Gloine before setting up

a studio of her own in Rathfarnham, Dublin.