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Harry Kernoff RHA (1900-1974) A Summers Day, Stephen's Green, Dublin Oil on board, 60 x 74cm (23.6 x 29'') Signed. Inscribed with title and artist's address verso Exhibited: Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, 1950, Cat. No. 160 Provenance: From the collection of the late Dr M Mcloughlin, who studied medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons and worked in Dublin thereafter before emigrating to Cape Town South Africa after the Second World War. Born in London to Russian Jewish and Spanish parents, Harry Kernoff moved to Dublin at the age of fourteen and made it his home for life. Kernoff spent his days as an apprentice in his father's furniture business, taking night classes at the Metropolitan School of Art under Sean Keating, and becoming the first night student to win the Taylor Art Scholarship in 1923. He first exhibited at the RHA just three years later, and continued to do so until the year of his death, becoming a full member of the academy in 1936. In that same year he held the first of three solo shows at the Victor Waddington Galleries (the others being in 1937 and 1940). Kernoff was active in many facets of the visual arts scene, designing sets and costumes for Dublin theatre productions, and executing portraits of literary figures and actors. His paintings, drawings and woodcuts of Dublin street scenes are significant not only for their artistic accomplishments but as historical records of the since changed capital. This view inside St. Stephen's Green, however, is an example of one of Dublin's landmarks that has retained its Victorian charm and continues to be a popular social backdrop for Dublin's locals and visitors of all ages. A watercolour version of this work was sold in our Important Irish Art Sale, March 2004, catalogue no. 43, for ?17,000. Harry Kernoff RHA (1900-1974) A Summers Day, Stephen's Green, Dublin Oil on board, 60 x 74cm (23.6 x 29'') Signed. Inscribed with title and artist's address verso Exhibited: Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, 1950, Cat. No. 160 Provenance: From the collection of the late Dr M Mcloughlin, who studied medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons and worked in Dublin thereafter before emigrating to Cape Town South Africa after the Second World War. Born in London to Russian Jewish and Spanish parents, Harry Kernoff moved to Dublin at the age of fourteen and made it his home for life. Kernoff spent his days as an apprentice in his father's furniture business, taking night classes at the Metropolitan School of Art under Sean Keating, and becoming the first night student to win the Taylor Art Scholarship in 1923. He first exhibited at the RHA just three years later, and continued to do so until the year of his death, becoming a full member of the academy in 1936. In that same year he held the first of three solo shows at the Victor Waddington Galleries (the others being in 1937 and 1940). Kernoff was active in many facets of the visual arts scene, designing sets and costumes for Dublin theatre productions, and executing portraits of literary figures and actors. His paintings, drawings and woodcuts of Dublin street scenes are significant not only for their artistic accomplishments but as historical records of the since changed capital. This view inside St. Stephen's Green, however, is an example of one of Dublin's landmarks that has retained its Victorian charm and continues to be a popular social backdrop for Dublin's locals and visitors of all ages. A watercolour version of this work was sold in our Important Irish Art Sale, March 2004, catalogue no. 43, for ?17,000.