DE GENNARO, Gaetano. Pastels and Paintings. Introduction by Kees Van Hoek – LIMITED TO 100 COPIES ONLY

With 37 mounted plates. Dublin: At the Sign of the Three Candles, 1945. Large quarto. pp. [viii], 38, 36 (plates). Edition limited to 100 numbered copies [No. 16]. Signed and numbered by De Gennaro. Quarter morocco on printed paper boards, titled in purple. New endpapers. Small stain to upper cover. A very good copy. Gaetano de Gennaro, an Italian artist, worked for many years in Ireland where his paintings were highly regarded and he became widely identified as an Irish artist. The subject matter is mainly of the islanders of Inishere; portraits of Douglas Hyde, Sean Keating, Jack B. Yeats, Jerome Connor, Liam Gogan, Anew McMaster, and also some African and East Indian subjects: The Bibliophile, Nobility, Inishere, Child Study, Old Fisherman, Inishere, Moira, Irish Girl, etc..