Lot 166: Ah a Cavity

J.P. Donleavy (b. 1926)
Ah a Cavity
signed and dated 'J P Donleavy/1990' (lower centre)
ink and watercolour
7¼ x 12½ in. (18.4 x 31.7 cm.)

New York, The National Arts Club, In Some of His Sins and Most of His Graces, May 2007, no. 34.

'J.P. Donleavy, author and playwright of The Ginger Man and numerous other internationally-acclaimed works, began his artistic career in Dublin as a painter ... The watercolours, which have become highly prized, are whimsical, bright of colour, and upbeat, revealing the artist's humour and playfulness that he has exhibited so well in his many books' (see B. Dunn, intro., Exhibition catalogue, J.P. Donleavy, Beastly Beasts, Birds, People & Places, Molesworth Gallery, Dublin, 2006, pp. 9-10).