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Peasant Sinner, Peasant Saint
Undated
4.25 x 3.5 in; 10.8 x 8.89 cm
Ink on paper
Signed WRG. George Moore half-length on the left side of the picture wearing a collar and tie; Edward Martyn on the right side of the picture holding a cigar.
In Dramatis Personae, a bourgeois W.B. Yeats caricatured these members of the Irish landed gentry: “Moore and Martyn were indeed in certain characteristics typical peasants, the peasant sinner, the peasant saint.”
Owned by the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, USA.
King of Ireland
Undated
Watercolor on paper?
George Moore head and shoulders in profile, turned to his left and wearing a crown.
On December 16, 2022, publisher Colin Smythe wrote: It was sold some years ago in auction, in the 1980s, I think in Sotheby’s. I have no idea of the buyer, but here’s a colour photo of it.
Published in Janet Egleson Dunleavy, George Moore in Perspective (Coin Smythe, 1983). Present whereabouts unknown.
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