ADAM'S - Important Irish Art Auction - 31st May 2017 (Click Lot title for more images and to Place Bid)

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Important Irish Art | 31st May 2017
Oil on canvas, 50.5 x 40.5cm (20 x 16’’)
Signed with initials; signed again verso
Exhibited: ‘Mainie Jellett’, The Neptune Gallery, 1974, Catalogue No.9;
‘Mainie Jellett Retrospective ’, December 1991 - March 1992, Catalogue No.13.
Literature: ‘Mainie Jellett and the Modern Movement’ by Bruce Arnold, Yale 1991, illustrated, figure 30, page 25;
‘Mainie Jellett’, by Bruce Arnold, IMMA 1991, full page illustration page 47.
The sitter in the present lot is thought to be a fellow student at the Westminster Technical Institute where Jellett
attended in 1917, and studied under Walter Sickert. She later wrote of her time at the Institute, ‘for the first time
drawing and composition came alive to me’. The studio background is similar to that in several other paintings
by the artist.
€ 3,000 - 5,000