Sketch by Lavery at Requiem Mass for Michael Collins 

The oil sketch for Pro-Cathedral, Dublin 1922 from the collection of Mary and Ben Dunne will come to market this autumn

Pro-Cathredral, Dublin 1922 (The Requiem Mass for Michael Collins)

The oil sketch by Sir John Lavery for  Pro-Cathredral, Dublin 1922 (The Requiem Mass for Michael Collins) from the collection of Mary and Ben Dunne will come to market in the autumn.

The sketch was made during the service from Lavery’s vantage point in the organ balcony. They were close friends and the Laverys lent their home at Cromwell Place in South Kensington, London to Michael Collins during the Treaty negotiations. Mary and Ben Dunne are downsizing and selling part of their personal art collection.

The sketch was made during the service from Lavery’s vantage point in the organ balcony.

It includes work by some of Ireland’s most celebrated painters from Yeats, Orpen, Walter Osborne and James Arthur O’Connor to Mary Swanzy, Dan O’Neill, Gerard Dillon and William Conor.

The 39 works to be sold will be exhibited at Gormley’s Dublin gallery from September 8-24 and afterwards in Belfast.