Harry Kernoff
The son of Jewish parents of mixed Russian and Spanish descent, Kernoff was born in London but moved to Dublin at an early age when his father opted to begin a cabinet-making business there. Kernoffs artistic training began with night classes at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art. Upon winning the prestigious Taylor Scholarship in 1923, he became a day student and henceforth devoted all his energies to art, working also for a time on designing stage sets in the company of actors such as Mνcheαl MacLνammσir and Hilton Edwards. Some time after this he visited Paris, staying for a month painting and sketching. In 1926 Kernoff began exhibiting at the RHA, continuing to do so nearly every year for the next five decades. He joined the Dublin Society of Painters in 1927 and held many solo exhibitions at their studio in no. 7 St. Stephens Green. He also had two solo exhibitions with the Victor Waddington Galleries in 1936 and 1937 and numerous shows abroad in London, Glasgow, Paris, Amsterdam, New York, Chicago and Toronto. In 1930 he visited Russia and later published on article on his experiences there prior to the Stalinist regime. At home, from his Dublin studio at no. 13 Stamer Street, Kernoff supported himself largely through selling woodcuts; three books of these were published, the first in 1942. He also contributed to other publications such as James Stephens Crock of Gold and A Broadside (Cuala Press) among others. His depictions of working-class Dublin and smaller towns across the country are much sought after by collectors, as are his portraits of Irelands leading literary and theatrical figures, some of which now hang in the Dublin Writers Museum among other public collections.
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'HOLY MACKERAL" (CONNEMARA FISHERMAN, RENVYLE, WALSH), 1960"'
- Price Realised: 2,900
- Sale: 25 May 2015
- oil on board
- 24 x 20in. (60.96 x 50.80cm)
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'ABSTRACT'
- Price Realised: 2,900
- Sale: 04 October 2010
- oil on board
- 62 by 48cm., 24.5 by 19in.
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'THE ABBEY THEATRE, MARLBOROUGH STREET, DUBLIN'
- Price Realised: 2,800
- Sale: 07 December 2020
- watercolour
- 9Ό x 13in. (23½ x 33.02cm)
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'RIVER LIFFEY FROM THE PHOENIX PARK, DUBLIN'
- Price Realised: 2,800
- Sale: 02 October 2017
- oil on panel
- 11½ x 14Ύin. (29.21 x 37.47cm)
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'AUTUMN IN SAINT STEPHEN'S GREEN'
- Price Realised: 2,800
- Sale: 04 October 2010
- oil on board
- 30 by 39cm., 11.75 by 15.2 5in.
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'UNTITLED (FLOATING CUBES)'
- Price Realised: 2,800
- Sale: 25 February 2008
- gouache and pencil on board
- 41 by 30cm., 16 by 12in.
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'STUDY OF A LADY'
- Price Realised: 2,800
- Sale: 17 February 2004
- oil on board
- 34 by 24cm., 13.5 by 9.5in.
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'PORTRAIT OF DELIA MURPHY, 1938'
- Price Realised: 2,700
- Sale: 10 July 2023
- charcoal and pastel
- 18½ x 14½in. (46.99 x 36.83cm)
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'A LARGE COLLECTION OF CHARACTERS AND PORTRAITS'
- Price Realised: 2,700
- Sale: 28 May 2018
- woodcuts; (36); (unframed)
- 10 x 8in. (25.40 x 20.32cm)
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'WOMAN WALKING A COW IN FOR MILKING, 1943'
- Price Realised: 2,700
- Sale: 02 October 2017
- watercolour
- 10Ό x 14Όin. (26.04 x 36.20cm)
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'SILVER BIRCHES & MY FIFTEEN ACRES, PHOENIX PARK, DUBLIN'
- Price Realised: 2,700
- Sale: 28 September 2015
- watercolour
- 8Ύ x 12Ύin. (22.23 x 32.39cm)
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'OLD-BARN ON FOYNES ISLAND, LIMERICK, EIRE, 1930'
- Price Realised: 2,700
- Sale: 28 November 2011
- watercolour
- 41 by 28cm., 16 by 11in.
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'MOTHER AND CHILD'
- Price Realised: 2,700
- Sale: 28 September 2009
- oil pastel on tinted paper
- 37 by 28cm., 14.7 5 by 11in.
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'ST. STEPHEN'S GREEN, DUBLIN, 1931'
- Price Realised: 2,600
- Sale: 02 December 2019
- watercolour
- 11 x 15½in. (27.94 x 39.37cm)
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'NELSON'S PILLAR, DUBLIN and TRAM AT NIGHT, DUBLIN (A PAIR)'
- Price Realised: 2,600
- Sale: 19 February 2007
- woodcut prints (2)
- 20 by 15cm., 7.75 by 5.75in.
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'EVE, 1936'
- Price Realised: 2,600
- Sale: 28 November 2006
- woodcut print
- 18 by 14cm., 7 by 5.5in.
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'JEUNE FILLE'
- Price Realised: 2,539
- Sale: 09 October 2001
- oil on board
- 20 by 15cm., 8 by 6in.
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'PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG GIRL AND HER BROTHER (A PAIR)'
- Price Realised: 2,539
- Sale: 09 October 2001
- pencil drawings
- 28 by 22cm., 11 by 8.5in.
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'SILVER BIRCHES, PHOENIX PARK, DUBLIN [OVERLOOKING THE LIFFEY VALLEY] 1933'
- Price Realised: 2,500
- Sale: 28 May 2018
- watercolour
- 9 x 12½in. (22.86 x 31Ύcm)
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'PORTRAIT OF HERMAN (THE ARTIST'S BROTHER), 1925'
- Price Realised: 2,500
- Sale: 12 March 2012
- oil on panel
- 29.845 by 20.955cm., 11.75 by 8.25in.
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'BEECH TREES, RENVYLE, CONNEMARA, 1933'
- Price Realised: 2,400
- Sale: 29 February 2016
- watercolour
- 10½ x 14in. (26.67 x 35.56cm)
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'BERNADETTE KIERNAN, 1940'
- Price Realised: 2,400
- Sale: 17 September 2007
- pastel on buff coloured paper
- 55 by 43cm., 21.5 by 17in.
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''THE DISCOVERY' BERTHED ON THE THAMES WITH SHELL MEX HOUSE IN THE DISTANCE, 1938'
- Price Realised: 2,300
- Sale: 30 May 2016
- watercolour
- 13 x 9in. (33.02 x 22.86cm)
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'CANAL JEAN-JAURES, PARIS, 1931'
- Price Realised: 2,300
- Sale: 28 November 2011
- watercolour over pencil
- 27 by 38cm., 10.7 5 by 15in.
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'AUTUMN, PHOENIX PARK, DUBLIN'
- Price Realised: 2,200
- Sale: 24 November 2014
- watercolour
- 9 x 13in. (22.86 x 33.02cm)
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'PHOENIX PARK, DUBLIN, 1932'
- Price Realised: 2,200
- Sale: 31 May 2010
- watercolour with gouache
- 25 by 34cm., 9.75 by 13.5in.
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'AN IRISH COLLEEN'
- Price Realised: 2,200
- Sale: 26 April 2005
- oil on board
- 20 by 13cm., 8 by 5.25in.
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'PORTRAIT OF GEORGIA CLOUGH (USA)'
- Price Realised: 2,200
- Sale: 22 February 2005
- pastel and pencil on buff coloured paper
- 51 by 38cm., 20 by 15in.