Lot 52 Sir John Lavery

Sir John Lavery, RA, RHA, RSA (1856-1941) PORTRAIT STUDIES OF MICHAEL COLLINS AND ARTHUR GRIFFITH Lithographs each 17'' x 13 1/4'' (43 x 34cm), each signed by the artist and the sitter. Published by Wilson Hartnell & Co. Publishers, Dublin. In 1921, Lavery painted portraits of both Collins and Griffith while they were in London negotiating terms of the Irish Treaty. Within months of their portraits being finished both men were dead; Griffith of a heart attack and Collins asassinated two weeks later. The present pair of lithographs are based on the pair of oil portraits that now hang in The Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin.