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Born at Craigavad, Co. Down, Georgina Moutray Kyle was educated at home by gov-
erness and tutors. After attending the Colarossi’s studio in Paris in 1880’s, she travelled
widely before returning to Ireland with a distinctly modern palette and post-impres-
sionist style. She also exhibited works of Concarneau and Quimperlé at the RHA and
the Belfast Society.
The Belfast Museum and Art Gallery bought “The market, Concarneau” which had
been exhibited in the Paris Salon in 1924. In 1930 the artist was represented in the
Irish exhibition at Brussels, she became an active committee member of the Belfast
Art Society (later called the Ulster Academy of Arts) and was a dominant persona in
Belfast exhibitions in the 1920s and 30s.
Fig. 6. Georgina Moutray Kyle
16. Georgina Moutray Kyle RUA (1865-1950)
Breton Village Scene
Oil on board, 51 x 32 cm
Signed
Provenance: From the Collection of the artist Samuel Taylor
Exhibited:The French Connection,The Ava Gallery, Clandeboye Estate, Bangor,
Co.Down, August –Sept 2010, Cat No. 13,The Hunt Museum, Limerick Sept-Oct 2010.
