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197 Estella Frances Solomons HRHA (1882-1968)
Kathleen Goodfellow
Oil on canvas, 61 x 51cm (24 x 20”)
Provenance: From the Artist’s Studio and thence from the estate of the late Geoffrey O’Connor, Kerry
Exhibited:
Estella Solomons
Exhibition, Crawford Gallery, Cork, May/June 1986, Cat. No. 22
€1,200 - 1,600
The Estella Solomons Collection (Lots 197 - 216)
Born in Dublin in 1882. Estella attended the Royal Hibernian Academy Schools under Walter Osborne, and entered the Metropolitan
School of Art, where she became a pupil of William Orpen. In 1906, she visited the Rembrandt tercentenary exhibition in Amsterdam,
which was a significant event for her. Despite being taught by WilliamOrpen, she was never a formula painter and painted by inclination
and sympathy, not by chequebook. She abandoned the Old-Masterish and academician’s style of working because it weighed her
feminine love of spontaneity. Estella was no publicist, her talent was a refined, rather private one exercised more for her own pleasure
than for the public’s.
