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Stephen McKenna PPRHA (1939-2017) – Two Melons 1990. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD
An oil on canvas by Stephen McKenna entitled Two Melons with an estimate of €4,000-€6,000 will lead the timed online only autumn art sale at Whyte’s which runs until October 20. Among the artists in the sale are Graham Knuttel, Liam O’Neill, Elizabeth Cope, Kenneth Webb, Dan O’Neill, Tony O’Malley, Pauline Bewick, Banks and Picasso. The sale is on view at Whyte’s in Dublin from October 13 and the catalogue is online.
Animals have always been a source of joy, humour, awe, companionship and inspiration for Irish artists. With its layers of folk wisdom and memory the Irish language offers more insights with words like bearrthoir (tail-chewing animal) and cluasachan (long eared animal). Inspired by the archives at the Centre for the Study of Irish Art an exhibition titled Tails from the Archive has just opened at the National Gallery. With a particular focus on recent acquisitions the exhibition features the art of Stephen McKenna, Nancy Wynne-Jones, Conor Fallon, Bea Orpen, Elizabeth C. Yeats, Daniel O’Neill, Anne Yeats, Oisín Kelly, Basil Rákóczi, Jack B. Yeats, Deborah Brown, and William Orpen. Pictured here is a work by Stephen McKenna (1939-2017) Stamp from 1955, c2005 © Estate of Stephen McKenna, Centre for the Study of Irish Art, National Gallery of Ireland
Stephen McKenna PPRHA, 1939-2017 – City by the Lake. UPDATE: THIS MADE 2,600 AT HAMMER
This 2006 oil on canvas by Stephen McKenna is lot 25 at de Veres Irish art sale online until October 15. The estimate is 3,000-5,000. The sale features work by Colin Middleton, Donald Teskey, Mainie Jellett, John Shinnors, Geraldine O’Neill, Gerard Dillon, Patrick Hennessy, Camille Souter, Cecil King and many more artists. There is sculpture by Cathy Carman, Sonja Landweer, John Coen, Sandra Bell, Anna Campbell, Michael Foley and Peter Killeen. Viewing is now underway at de Veres on Kildare St. in Dublin and the catalogue is online.
Viewing for Whyte’s Irish and International art sale gets underway today at the RDS. There is art by Jack B. Yeats, Paul Henry, Patrick Heron, Louis le Brocquy, Norah McGuinness, Sean Keating, Patrick Scott, Grace Henry, Peter Curling, Howard Helmick, John Behan, Patrick O’Reilly, Edward Delaney and a wide variety of other acclaimed painters and sculptors. Viewing is from 10 am to 5 pm for the next three days and the auction is at 6 pm on Monday.
STEPHEN MCKENNA – Pyrrhus from 2012, an oil on canvas.
THE life and legacy of artist Stephen McKenna, who died in May, is celebrated in an exhibition at the Kerlin Gallery in Dublin. London born he studied at The Slade in the 1960’s and settled in Carlow in the 1990’s. He was one of the first artists exhibited at Kerlin on its founding in 1988 and he continued to show there for almost 30 years.
This celebratory show brings together a selection of paintings produced within the last decade of his life and includes landscapes, still life, domestic interiors and street scenes. His work is represented in the collections of IMMA, the Tate, London, Berlinische Galeries, the Musees Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels and in many private and public collections. The exhibition will close with a celebratory event as part of the Dublin Gallery weekend on Sunday, November 25.
Stephen McKenna (1939–2017) Photo credit: Amelia Stein
The death of artist Stephen McKenna has been announced by The Kerlin Gallery. The London born artist studied at The Slade in the 1960’s. Rather than conforming to the era’s dominant trends of pop art and conceptualism, he defied expectation by turning instead to figurative painting – unfashionable in London at that time – and began to develop a unique painterly practice informed by diverse art historical precedents.
He moved to Germany in 1971 and, after living and working in numerous European countries, settled in Co. Carlow in the 1990’s. The impact of this extensive continental travel is evident in McKenna’s painting, not only in its subject matter – though European cityscapes and landscapes are frequently represented – but in the lyricism of his approach, artfully fusing classical and romantic painting traditions. He died in Co. Carlow on May 4.
