JEWELLERY, DECORATIVE & FINE ARTS AUCTION Tuesday, 11 July 2023 - 10:00 AM start

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John Kavanagh (Ireland 1903-1985),

Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500

Lot Details

The Plasterer, c.1940, plaster relief sculpture. 460 x 460mm. Born in Birr, County Offaly, Ireland. Kavanagh studied at the Royal College of Art and the British School in Rome from 1930–3. Kavanagh’s commissions included the corner figures and reliefs for Walthamstow Town Hall (1940) and a Madonna and Child for the Catholic Hospital, Lambeth. He was appointed as a senior lecturer at Elam Fine Art School, University of Auckland, New Zealand, in 1951. He and his wife settled in New Zealand, and he died in 1985. There was an exhibition of his work entitled 'John F. Kavanagh, Sculptor: An Exhibition of Sculpture and Models from the Collection of the Artist', at Auckland City Art Gallery, between August and October 1979, which was accompanied by a catalogue.