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THE LEGEND AND THE SEA
Patrick Hennessy (Irish, 1915–1980) · c.1956
€32,000 hammer
≈ $45,917≈ £25,468
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- Medium
- Oil · Paintings all oil results →As published: “oil on canvas laid on board”
- Support
- Canvas
- Signed / inscribed
- original inscribed label on reverse
- Category
- Oil paintings
- Dimensions
- 105 by 204cm., 41.5 by 80.5in.
- Auction house
- Whyte's
- Sale
- Important Irish & British Art (727)
- Date
- September 29, 2008
- Location
- Dublin, Ireland
- Lot
- 5
- Estimate
- —
- Source
- Auction house whytes.ie ↗Retrieved Sep 25, 2026
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