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Lot 43: James McKenna (1933-2000) GROUP FROM CITIZENS'

Est: €6,000 EUR - €8,000 EURSold:
Whyte'sDublin, IrelandNovember 24, 2008

Item Overview

Description

James McKenna (1933-2000) GROUP FROM CITIZENS' TREE, 1966 stamped and numbered at base bronze (no. 1 from an edition of 5) 42 by 28cm., 16.5 by 11in. Citizens' Tree commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the 1916 Rising. McKenna's memorial consisted of a tree of figurative groups including The Five Lamps and Five Stalwart Hurlers as well as single figures and the present group of adult male and female figures. Whilst the plaster maquette for Citizens' Tree no longer survives and the full-scale memorial was never realised, individual groups were cast in bronze in 1985 and featured in the recent retrospective of McKenna's work at IMMA.

Artist or Maker

Literature

Seán Kissane and Susan Daniel McElroy, James McKenna, Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2007, pp. 36-45, particularly p. 38

Auction Details

Important Irish Art

by
Whyte's
November 24, 2008, 06:00 PM GMT

38 Molesworth Street, Dublin, 2, IE