DLA015-0059  Transcription 

43 RUTLAND SQUARE,

DUBLIN

26 July 1924

My dear M de Lażlo

They have sent me on some reproductions of Michel Angelos head from his sketch book which the great pleasure of showing Madame de Lażlo and you some months ago. I have lent the sketch book to The Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge University

I am sending you one of the reproductions as you may

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like to have it - I have been in London since re Law case but you were in Italy - I expect to go over again on Tuesday next and will be at The Tavistock Hotel Covent Garden for a few days - We put a nice sheet of plate glass on your picture in our Gallery [presumably 5617].[1] - It looks fine, and was much admired this week by Americans now visiting Ireland.

With kind regards | I remain yours most sincerely

Coghlan Briscoe

P.A.de Lazlo Esq.

Editorial Note:

From 1918 to 1928, Coghlan Briscoe was Chairman of the Advisory Committee for the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin (now the Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane)

SMDL

04/12/2017


[1] Presumably de László’s portrait of Monsignor Count Péter Vay de Vaja et Luskod (1864-1948) [5617], which was exhibited on loan at the Dublin Municipal Gallery of Art in 1923 and donated to the gallery the following year.