This 1936 portrait of Desmond McCarthy by Harry Kernoff comes up at the James Adam online picture auction which runs until July 16 with an estimate of €1,000-€1,500. The foremost literary and dramatic critic of his day Sir Charles Otto Desmond McCarthy was a descendant of the last McCarthy chief and a member of the Cambridge Apostles. Born in Plymouth in 1877 and a part of the Bloomsbury group he became a journalist in 1903. As literary editor of the New Statesman he recruited Cyril Connolly in the 1920’s. Later on McCarthy became a literary critic for The Sunday Times. The artist Harry Kernoff painted numerous portraits of many figures in the public eye, including W B Yeats, Sean O’Casey and Eamon de Valera. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD.
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