^Lot 307 1921: Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith, Sir John Lavery lithograph proofs

19.5 by 15.5 in.




Framed, signed in lower margin by both artist and sitters.Sir John 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 killed in August 1922. The present pair of lithographs hung on the walls of Restaurant Jammet in Dublin, which was frequented by many famous figures including Jack B. Yeats, Micheál MacLiammóir, Seán O’Sullivan et al. The prints were based on oil portraits, one of which is now in the collection of the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin. Printed by Wilson Hartnell & Co. Publishers, Dublin.