Irish Art, including Property from the Collection of Sir Michael Smurfit

MAINIE JELLETT | PAINTING

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Auction Closed

September 9, 02:37 PM GMT

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

MAINIE JELLETT

1897-1944

PAINTING

signed l.r.: M JELLETT; inscribed and titled on an exhibition label on the reverse: Miss Mainine H. Jellett / 36 Fitzwilliam Sq / Dublin / Painting

oil on canvas

121 by 69cm., 47½ by 27in.

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Whyte's, Dublin, 25 November 2013, lot 52

The present work was originally hidden underneath another painting by Jellett called Death of Procris (1929), sold at auction in 2013 (also illustrated in Bruce Arnold, Mainie Jellett and the Modern Movement, 1991, no.150, p.112). Upon the cleaning of Death of Procris, the present painting was discovered which must also date to circa 1929. It relates to Jellett's religious designs, compare for example Abstract Crucifixion (Arnold, op. cit., no.162, illustrated p.116). The colour, stippled brushwork and design are typical of her work from this period.