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Estella Frances Solomons HRHA (1882 1968)
Three at Table
Oil on canvas, 57 x 77.5cm (22½ x 30½”)
Signed and dated 1919
Exhibited: RHA Annual Exhibition 1919, Cat. No. 17;
Oireachtas Art Exhibition 1920, Cat. No. 2;
Estella Solomons
Exhibition,The Crawford Gallery, Cork, 1986, Cat. No. 81
(illustrated); and
Estella Solomons
Exhibition,The Frederick Gallery, Dublin, Nov. 1999, Cat. No. 1
Literature:
Estella Solomons,
Dr. Hilary Pyle, 1999, illustrated p.3
This important work by Solomons features Estella’s sister Sophie in a blue silk Kimono robe -
she was later to become a noted singer in London. To her right is Moppie Morrow, daughter
of fellow artist Jack Morrow. Jack languished in Mountjoy Prison for most of 1919, having
been arrested in January of that year. Estella helped look after Moppie, who was to feature in
a number of her works. Estella’s Great Brunswick Street Studio was a ‘safe house’ for many in-
surgents on the run around this time. It has been suggested that the third figure in this picture
is Estella’s close friend Kathleen Goodfellow.
€10,000 - 15,000
