IRISH women artists are well represented at the James Adam sale of Important Irish Art in Dublin on December 3. From the Cubist landscape of Mary Swanzy to Maeve McCarthy’s portrait of Francis Stuart there is a representative selection of Irish women like Muriel Brandt, Mainie Jellett, Evie Hone, May Guinness, Estella Solomons, Letitia M Hamilton, Kitty Wilmer O’Brien, Grace Henry, Norah McGuinness, Kathleen Mackie, Camille Souter and Rose Barton who deserve to be better known and more widely celebrated. Here is a small selection. The catalogue is online:
Mary Swanzy HRHA (1882-1978) Cubist Landscape (10,000-15,000) UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 15,500 AT HAMMER
Camille Souter HRHA (b 1929) – End of Summer Apples (8,000-12,000) UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD
Evie Hone HRHA (1894-1955) – Tinkers’ Child (1,500-2,500). UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 1,400 AT HAMMER
Mainie Jellett (1897-1944) Abstract Composition (1,000-1,500). UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 900 AT HAMMER
May Guinness RHA (1863-1955) – Canal Side Houses, watercolour (800-1,200). UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 500 AT HAMMER