Lot 74: Jerome Connor (1874-1943) SEAN

signed at base; titled on label beneath base

h:7.50 w:4in.

bronze on green marble base

The Hunter Gatherer - The Collection of George and Maura McClelland, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 2004, p.139 (illustrated)

Collection of George and Maura McClelland

Dimensions of base: 5 by 3.5 by 3.5ins.
Height inclusive of base: 12.5in.

"One of the most powerful sculptures [in the McClelland Collection] is a small bronze portrait by the Kerry born artist Jerome Connor. The piece, Sean, is a portrait of one of the sculptor's favourite models when he worked in America, and has all the hallmarks of Connor's practice: an alert pose and the deliberate asymmetry that makes the likeness convincing. Connor's work [had] an added appeal for the McClellands as his homeplace, Annascaul, on the Dingle peninsula in Co. Kerry, is close to Maura McClelland's family home." (2)

(2) Ibid., p.124
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