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Important Irish Art
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wednesday 1st April 2015 at 6pm
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Frances Kelly ARHA (fl. 1908-2002)
Still Life with Flowers and Statue
Oil on canvas, 101 x 75cm (39¾ x 29½”)
Signed. Study for mural verso.
Born in Co. Louth, Frances Kelly studied at the
Metropolitan school of Art in Dublin and later for three
years in Paris under Léopold Survage. She exhibited at the
RHA for the first time in 1929 and continued to show
there until the late 1930s. Kelly had been the first holder
of the Henry Higgins travelling scholarship in 1932. A
prominent member of the
Dublin Painters’ Society from
the 1940s, she exhibited there as well as the Oireachtas
and Irish Exhibition of Living Art during this period. She
also held four one-man shows at the Dawson Gallery.
€1,500 - 2,500