Lot 20: Sir John Lavery RA RSA RHA (1856-1941) MICHAEL COLLINS and ARTHUR GRIFFITHS, 1921 (A PAIR)

each work signed in lower margin by both artist and sitter; with publisher's details and blindstamp also in lower margin; each also signed by the artist in the plate lower left and lower right respectively

h:20 w:16in.

lithographs; (artist's proofs); (2)

Whyte's, 21 February 2006, lot 115;
Private collection

Lavery painted portraits of Griffith and Collins in 1921 whilst they were in London negotiating the terms of the Irish Treaty. Within months of their portraits being painted, both men were dead - Griffith of a heart attack, Collins assassinated only weeks later. The present pair of lithographs are based on the oil portraits, one of which is now in the collection of the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin. The portrait of Collins was said to have been given to Kitty Kiernan and has since been lost.
Printed by Wilson Hartnell & Co. Publishers, Dublin.
Of equal size, framed uniformly.