Print of a WW1 photo of a Nieuport joins the Irish Air Corps Museum

Gallerist Olivier Cornet is delighted to announce that a copy of Robert Russell's intaglio print of a WWWI photo by his great-granduncle François Bost (featuring a Nieuport plane) has joined the collection of another great Irish museum: The Irish Air Corps Museum in Baldonnel.

Olivier would like to thank the Contemporary Irish Art Society for facilitating this permanent loan to the museum. If you would like to read more about the print, the various public collections it is now in, the original photograph, Leyho's exhibition "Chiens Bleus, Chiens Gris" which was the genesis of it all, please visit https://www.oliviercornetgallery.com/francois-bost-ww1-photography-on-prints-by-robert-russell-commissioned-by-olivier-cornet

Photo: Left to right, CIAS council member Brigid Connaughton, Brigadier General Rory O' Connor, General Officer Commanding the Irish Air Corps and Director of Military Aviation, CIAS Chairwoman Mary Pavlides, CIAS member Ray Mullen. Irish Air Corps Museum in Baldonnel, 18 January 2022.