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      • Albert G. Power RHA (1881-1945) HEAD OF CONSTANCE GORE BOOTH, COUNTESS MARKIEVIC (1868 - 1927)
        Sep. 27, 2021

        Albert G. Power RHA (1881-1945) HEAD OF CONSTANCE GORE BOOTH, COUNTESS MARKIEVIC (1868 - 1927)

        Est: €10,000 - €15,000

        Albert G. Power RHA (1881-1945) HEAD OF CONSTANCE GORE BOOTH, COUNTESS MARKIEVIC (1868 - 1927) marble h:10  w:5 d:5 in. Provenance: Mrs Albert Power; Mr John Lane to Mrs Maurice MacGonigal; Victor Waddington; Declan O'Dwyer, Cork; Private collection, Northern Ireland; Adam's & Mealy's, Independence Sale, 12 April 2006, lot 412; Private collection Following the practice in the 19th century by sculptors, of making mirror pieces, initially led by Camille Claudel, and then by her lover, August Rodin, all of the figurative Irish sculptors made mirror pieces. A 'Mirror Piece' is one intended to rest on an over-mantel or a mantelpiece reflected in the mirrored surfaces. Small busts of important,or decorative figures were in vogue with Jerome Conor, Andrew O'Connor, Oliver Sheppard, Albert Power and Rosamund Praeger. The head and neck are modelled or carved so that the piece is seen in the round, obviating the need to feel the piece. The present work is highly finished with the detail of the hair treated in the antique manner, only the hand drill marks on the back of the Herm is left rough, but this work is clearly intended to be seen from all sides,which is why so many sculptors used the Herm format of a square base and a fully realised carved detailed surface. Unsigned, it is given to Albert Power for stylistic and technical reasons, as well as the relationship between Power and the Nationalists of the period and with those artists such as Maurice MacGonigal who were members of the Republican movement. Here the artist has shown Constance Markievicz in the well known formula of the Roman Virtuous Matron. The stylised treatment of her hair and the suggestion of a tunic or dalmatic collar is one which many artists used since the days of the Roman Republic of pre Tarquinian rule to indicate an heroic and virtuous matron who makes exemplary sacrifices, usually leading to death, for her city or nation, resisting tyranny or corrupt rulers. Madam Markievicz, as she was known, was born to the family of Gore Booth who owned the great house of Lissadell, Co. Sligo. She studied painting in London and Paris, and, in 1900 married a Ukranian­Polish Count, Casimir Markievicz a fellow painter. After the failure of her marriage she settled in Dublin after 1903 where she associated with the members of the Gaelic League and the founders of the Abbey Theatre. In 1908 she joined Sinn Féin, and a year later she and Bulmer Hobson founded Na Fianna Éireann, an organisation for boys - a Republican vesrsion of the Boy Scouts. She joined Maud Gonne's Inghinídhe na hÉireann (Daughters of lreland) and contributed to Suffragette and Nationalist Newspapers. In 1913 she aided James Larkin in the great Dublin lockout; in 1914 she became an Officer in the Irish Citizen Army. She fought in 1916 and was sentenced to death, but the sentence was commuted to penal servitude for Life. Released in 1917, she was the first woman elected to Parliament at Westminster in 1918, but did not take up her seat owing to the abstentionist policies of Sinn Féin She was Minister for Labour in the first Dáil. Vehemently opposed to the Anglo Irish Treaty she supported the anti-treaty forces in the Civil War. In 1923 she was arrested for campaigning for the release of Republican prisoners and went on hunger strike. She joined the newly formed Fianna Fáil in 1926 and was re-elected to Dáil Éireann in 1927. She died a month later of post operative complications, malnutrition and general debilitation. With her sister, Eva, she was a noted supporter of the poor; both are the subjects in W.B. Yeats's great poem on Lissadell, a threnody on the irrevocable changes in the fortunes of the Patriotic Anglo Irish and their great houses. The double portrait of Constance and her sister is to be seen in the Merrion Hotel in Dublin having been acquired by the Naughton Family from the dispersal sale of the Gore Booth household effects at Lissadell in 2004. Ciaran MacGonigal, April 2007. We are grateful to Adam's for permission to reprint the above note from their catalogue.

        Whyte's
      • ALBERT POWER RHA | Bust of W.B. Yeats
        Nov. 21, 2018

        ALBERT POWER RHA | Bust of W.B. Yeats

        Est: £15,000 - £25,000

        bronze, on Connemara marble base

        Sotheby's
      • ALBERT POWER RHA | Bust of Dean Jonathan Swift
        Nov. 21, 2018

        ALBERT POWER RHA | Bust of Dean Jonathan Swift

        Est: £20,000 - £30,000

        marble

        Sotheby's
      • Albert G. Power RHA (1881-1945) CONNEMARA TROUT
        Dec. 10, 2016

        Albert G. Power RHA (1881-1945) CONNEMARA TROUT

        Est: €800 - €1,200

        inscribed ''A. Power'' and indistinctly dated beneath

        Whyte's
      • Albert Power RHA (1881-1945) HEAD OF JAMES STEPHENS, 1914
        Feb. 24, 2014

        Albert Power RHA (1881-1945) HEAD OF JAMES STEPHENS, 1914

        Est: €2,000 - €3,000

        signed and dated at base

        Whyte's
      • Albert Power RHA (1881-1945) Mother and Child
        Dec. 04, 2012

        Albert Power RHA (1881-1945) Mother and Child

        Est: €2,000 - €4,000

        Albert Power RHA (1881-1945) Mother and Child Bronze, 22.9cm (9'') high Signed and inscribed '' Albert Power to friend Francis O'Donohoe ARHA'' Exhibited: ''Collectors Eye'' Exhibition Cat. No. 38., The Model Arts and Niland Gallery, Sligo January - February 2004, The Hunt Museum, Limerick March - April 2004. Literature: ''Collector's Eye'' 2004 Exhibition Catalogue, illustrated p20 Once he had joined day classes at the Metropolitan School of Art, Albert Power came under the influence of John Hughes and Oliver Sheppard. He won a series of prizes for modeling, including three silver medals. Power first exhibited at the RHA in 1906, and from then until 1945 he showed seventy-six works, about one third portraits. Appointed a full member of the RHA in 1919, he executed the posthumous head of Thomas Kettle which was erected in St. Stephen's Green. In 1922 he was represented in the Irish exhibition at Galeries Barbazanges, Paris, with busts of Lord Dunsany, James Stephens and W.B.Yeats. The same year the new Free State Government commissioned him to execute posthumous busts in bronze of Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins. He was also responsible for the monument in Glasnevin Cemetery to Most Rev. Dr. Walsh, Archbishop of Dublin and the memorial to Countess Markievicz which is located in St. Stephen's Green. This work depicts Albert Power's wife and eldest daughter May. Francis O'Donohoe was regarded as an artist of some promise, but his life was cut short on Christmas Eve 1911 when the motorcar he was a passenger in was was involved in an accident.

        Adam's
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