Adam's AT HOME 27th November 2023

118 NDY WALSH (1915-2014) onia Cambessedesii ercolour on paper, 500 x 400 mm ed ‘WWalsh, June 1938’ ature: Published in E. Charles Nelson & W. F. Walsh, An Irish flower garden (1984), Boethius Press, Kilkenny OVENANCE: GIFTED BY THE ARTIST TO PRESENT OWNER 0 - 800 358 WENDY WALSH (1915-2014) Pinus coulteri Chinese ink on paper, 360 x 310mm Signed and dated 1994 Literature: Published as frontispiece in E. Charles Nelson & A. Probert, A man who can speak of plants, 1995, E. C. Nelson, Dublin Provenance: Gifted by the artist to present owner. € 300 - 500 359 WENDY WALSH (1915-2014) Salix hibernica [“Salix hybernica”] Chinese Ink on paper, 190 x 265mm Signed and dated ‘W.Walsh. 1983’; inscribed to border ‘Coll. TCD Bot. Gdns. 6 April leaves 20 May’ Literature: Originally published in E. Charles Nelson & W. F. Walsh, An Irish flower garden (1984): Boethius Press, Kilkenny Provenance: Gifted by the artist to present owner € 200 - 400 360 WENDY WALSH (1915-2014) Fruiting head of Paeonia cambessedesii: Watercolour on paper, 280 x 190 mm Signed and dated ‘W. Walsh 1983’, inscribed with title to border Literature: Originally published in E. Charles Nelson & W. F. Walsh, An Irish flower garden replanted (1997), E. de Burca, Castlebourke Provenance: Gifted by the artist to present owner € 300 - 500 361 WENDY WALSH (1915-2014) Rosa X Hibernica Watercolour on paper, 400 x 290 mm Signed and dated ‘W. Walsh 1983’ Literature: Originally published in E. Charles Nelson & W. F. Walsh, An Irish flower garden (1984), Boethius Press, Kilkenny Provenance: Gifted by the artist to present owner € 500 - 800 WENDY WALSH was Ireland’s most prominent 20th century botanical artist. Born in Cumbria in 1915, she had an early affinity for art and while not permitted to attend an art school she studied privately with animal painters Cecil Aldin and Arminell Morshead. She remained an amateur artist until the mid-1970s when at the age of sixty she was commissioned to design floral stamps. The Gilbert Island stamps led to further projects for Irish stamps based on flora and fauna, which eventually led to the production of infamous book on horticulture. The Irish Florilegium – Wild and Garden Plants of Ireland was published in 1983, in which many of these watercolours were included. Botanical painting is a highly specialised practice and Walsh managed to instil both scientific accu- racy as well immense beauty in her floral studies.