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Bird is a 1940 work by Kenneth Hall. It is part of the IMMA Permanent Collection.

MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions Unframed, 36 x 26 cm
Credit LineIMMA Collection: Donation, Patrick Scott, 2013
Item NumberIMMA.3843
Copyright For copyright information, please contact the IMMA Collections team: [email protected].
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Kenneth Hall, Bird, 1940, Oil on canvas, Unframed, 36 x 26 cm, Collection Irish Museum of Modern Art, Donation, Patrick Scott, 2013

For copyright information, please contact the IMMA Collections team: [email protected].

About the Artist

Kenneth Hall 1913–1946

Self taught as an artist before turning to painting Kenneth Hall was a furniture designer working in London. He first exhibited in 1934 at the Lucy Wertheim Gallery and the following year met the painter Basil Rakoczi, with whom he founded the White Stag Group for the advancement of subjectivity in art and psychological analysis. During the late 1930s Hall and Rakoczi travelled frequently to France and elsewhere on the Continent and became influenced by the surrealist movement. A pacifist, at the outbreak of the Second World War Hall, along with Rakoczi, moved to Galway and on to Dublin in 1940 where he arranged the first White Stag Group exhibition. A leading member of émigré artists in Ireland, Hall continued to organise and exhibit with the White Stag until 1945 when he returned to London. Plagued by ill-health he took his own life in 1946.
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