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KAVANAGH, John Francis (1903-1985) - Roses in a Glass

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Lot Details

This work is shown in an article in ART NEW ZEALAND at: https://www.art-newzealand.com/Issues11to20/kavanagh.htm

• Name of Artist: KAVANAGH, John Francis (1903-1985)
• Nationality: N.Z.
• Title: Roses in a Glass
• Medium: Ink with watercolour
• Signed?: Signed
• Framed?: Glazed & Framed
• Image Size: 26cm x 20cm
• Overall Size: 44cm x 36cm
• Biographical: Portrait sculptor, born in Birr, King’s County, Ireland. He studied at Liverpool School of Art, 1920–1, winning a scholarship to the Royal College of Art in 1925. He studied there, 1925–30, under Henry Moore, winning the Rome Scholarship in sculpture in 1930, living at British School in Rome, 1930–3. While teaching at Leeds College of Art, 1934–9, was made a member of RBS in 1935. Kavanagh’s bronze Russian Peasant is held by Tate Gallery and his sensitive Wanda Tiburzzi is illustrated in the volume RBS: Modern British Sculpture, published in 1939. Notable among Kavanagh’s public sculpture are the corner figures and reliefs for Walthamstow Town Hall. In 1951 he was appointed senior lecturer at Elam Fine Art School at New Zealand’s Auckland University.
• Stock No: H0948