Irish art from the Hobart Collection at Christie's in London
'O'Connell Bridge' by Jack Butler Yeats from the Mary and Alan Hobart Collection at Christie's.
The private collection of Mary and Alan Hobart, founders of the Pyms Gallery, comes up at Christie's in London on Tuesday (November 19).
From premises in Belgravia and Mayfair, the Hobarts mounted pioneering exhibitions at the Pyms Gallery, founded in 1974, which championed Irish art in Britain for the first time since Sir Hugh Lane at the beginning of the 20th century.
Key artists included in Christie's sale are William Orpen, Jack Butler Yeats, Mary Swanzy, FE McWilliam, Jerome Connor, William Crozier, Rita Duffy, Micheal Farrell, Cecil King, Charles Tyrrell, William Scott, Sean Scully, Grace Henry, Gerard Dillon, Augustus John, Bridget Riley, Patrick Heron, John Tunnard and Eileen Agar.
The Hobarts' collection was showcased at an exhibition at IMMA in Dublin last year.
