Kenneth Hall
Hall had studied furniture design in London during the early 1930s, but as a painter was largely self-taught. Around the time of his first exhibition - given by Lucy Wertheim in 1934, Hall met Basil Rαkσczi, a fellow interior designer and founder of the Society for Creative Psychology. Together they read works on psychoanalysis and painted works they described as 'subjective art'. www.whytes.ie They exhibited these in a shared studio in Fitzroy Street under the collective name of the White Stag Group. During the years 1936-38 they travelled through France, Spain, Italy and Greece. Hall's second show at the Wertheim Gallery consisted chiefly of paintings of Cap D'Ail, on the French Riviera. In July 1939 he and Rαkσczi came to Ireland, partly to avoid conscription, and partly perhaps owing to the fact that both of their mothers hailed from Co. Cork. In an attempt to live frugally they took a cottage at Delphi, Co. Mayo, but returned to Dublin in March 1940. There they re-established the White Stag Group, creating a nucleus for likeminded experimental artists such as Patrick Scott, Mainie Jellett, and Nick Nicholls. After the war Hall returned to London and showed briefly with the Redfern Gallery. However, he suffered acute depression and in July 1946 took his own life. The following year, in the preface to her memoirs, Adventure in Art, Lucy Wertheim paid tribute to Hall, whose untimely death, she wrote 'robbed [us] of a very great artist'. www.whytes.ie
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'CAP D'AIL, 1938'
- Price Realised: 10,000
- Sale: 19 February 2007
- oil on canvas
- 51 by 61cm., 20 by 24in.
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'CAP D'AIL, 1938'
- Price Realised: 4,200
- Sale: 18 May 2009
- oil on canvas
- 51 by 61cm., 20 by 24in.
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'UNTITLED, circa 1943-44'
- Price Realised: 3,400
- Sale: 25 February 2008
- oil on canvas
- 28 by 41cm., 11 by 16in.
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'VILLAGE IN GREECE'
- Price Realised: 2,900
- Sale: 30 November 2009
- oil on canvas
- 51 by 61cm., 20 by 24in.
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'SHELL MEX HOUSE AND PUBLIC PARK, 26 NOVEMBER 1936'
- Price Realised: 2,700
- Sale: 31 May 2010
- oil on canvas
- 64 by 76cm., 25 by 30in.
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'HOOKER LEAVING INISHEER'
- Price Realised: 2,400
- Sale: 06 March 2023
- oil on canvas
- 8Ό x 10½in. (20.96 x 26.67cm)
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'AN IRISH ISLAND VILLAGE'
- Price Realised: 2,285
- Sale: 26 June 2000
- oil on canvas
- 25 by 48cm., 10 by 19in.
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'UNTITLED, circa 1940'
- Price Realised: 2,200
- Sale: 25 February 2008
- oil on canvas board
- 36 by 25cm., 14 by 10in.
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'STILL LIFE WITH FLOWERS AND TEAPOT'
- Price Realised: 2,200
- Sale: 22 February 2005
- watercolour, pen and ink on paper
- 51 by 36cm., 20 by 14in.
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'STUDIO INTERIOR'
- Price Realised: 2,100
- Sale: 16 September 2003
- watercolour, pen & ink
- 14 by 24cm., 5.5 by 9.5in.
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'COTTAGES AND GRAVEYARD, COUNTY DONEGAL'
- Price Realised: 2,000
- Sale: 07 March 2022
- oil on canvas
- 10Ό x 14Όin. (26.04 x 36.20cm)
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'OLIVE TREES, CAP FLEURI, 1938'
- Price Realised: 1,900
- Sale: 02 October 2023
- oil on canvas
- 20 x 24in. (50.80 x 60.96cm)
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'AN ISLAND VILLAGE, WEST OF IRELAND'
- Price Realised: 1,900
- Sale: 02 October 2023
- oil on canvas
- 10 x 19in. (25.40 x 48.26cm)
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'COTTAGES AND GRAVEYARD, COUNTY DONEGAL'
- Price Realised: 1,900
- Sale: 26 November 2018
- oil on canvas
- 10Ό x 14Όin. (26.04 x 36.20cm)
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'STILL LIFE WITH FLOWERS AND INKWELL'
- Price Realised: 1,500
- Sale: 26 May 2007
- pen and ink with watercolour
- 20 by 26cm., 8 by 10.2in.
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'ACHILL'
- Price Realised: 1,200
- Sale: 25 November 2019
- oil on board
- 10 x 14in. (25.40 x 35.56cm)
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'ABSTRACT COMPOSITION'
- Price Realised: 1,200
- Sale: 22 February 2005
- pastel, pen and ink on paper
- 39 by 50cm., 15.5 by 19.5in.
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'MEDITERRANEAN COVE'
- Price Realised: 1,050
- Sale: 30 May 2016
- oil on canvas
- 20 x 24in. (50.80 x 60.96cm)
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'HOUSES ON ARAN'
- Price Realised: 1,050
- Sale: 24 February 2014
- oil on board
- 9.5 by 13.5in., 23.75 by 33.75cm.
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'BATTERSEA, LONDON, 1937'
- Price Realised: 750
- Sale: 27 November 2017
- watercolour over ink
- 5 x 7in. (12.70 x 17.78cm)
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'ABSTRACTION and HOMMAGE + GARCIA LORCA, 1938 (A PAIR)'
- Price Realised: 700
- Sale: 12 June 2005
- pen and ink with wash on paper
- 56 by 77cm., 22 by 30.5in.
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'OPEN AIR CAFE'
- Price Realised: 501
- Sale: 09 October 2001
- pen and ink
- 13 by 18cm., 5 by 7in.
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'FISH'
- Price Realised: 380
- Sale: 28 September 2015
- watercolour
- 9Ύ x 13½in. (24.77 x 34.29cm)