Lilian Lucy Davidson
Lilian Davidson came from humble beginnings in Bray, Co. Wicklow where she was educated privately before attending the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art. She was closely associated with the Watercolour Society of Ireland with whom she exhibited from 1912 until 1953 and with the RHA which exhibited 135 works by the artist over a forty year period from 1914. Davidson exhibited widely with the Dublin Painters exhibitions, the Oireachtas and in 1920 in a joint show with Mainie Jellett. www.whytes.ie She is also recorded as exhibiting abroad in the 1930s in London, Amsterdam, Chicago and at the Salon de la Sociιtι Nationale in Paris (1924 and 1930). A solo shoe in Dublin was held in 1936 which comprised 36 works, among them a portrait of George Russell. In 1940 she was made an Associate to the RHA. Davidson set up a studio and taught in Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin where she counted among her protιgιs; Bea Orpen and Kitty Wilmer OBrien. She was closely associated with theatre in Dublin and designed sets, wrote plays and painted scenery for the Torch Theatre which she helped found in the 1930s. www.whytes.ie
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'FAIR DAY, WESTPORT, COUNTY MAYO, c.1943'
- Price Realised: 36,000
- Sale: 06 June 2022
- oil on canvas
- 26 x 30in. (66.04 x 76.20cm)
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'POTATO HARVEST, 1931'
- Price Realised: 28,000
- Sale: 27 May 2019
- oil on canvas
- 30 x 40in. (76.20 x 101.60cm)
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'FOOD FOR THE FIELDS'
- Price Realised: 11,500
- Sale: 26 April 2005
- oil on canvas
- 42 by 53cm., 16.5 by 21in.
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'LAUNCHING THE CURRACHS, WEST OF IRELAND'
- Price Realised: 9,500
- Sale: 06 June 2022
- oil on canvas
- 19 x 25in. (48.26 x 63½cm)
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'MOUNTAIN LANDSCAPE WITH THORN TREES AND GORSE AND A YOUNG WOMAN CARRYING A BASKET'
- Price Realised: 6,200
- Sale: 21 September 2004
- oil on canvas laid on board
- 44 by 60cm., 17.5 by 23.5in.
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'THE COURTYARD, FRIAR'S HILL'
- Price Realised: 2,300
- Sale: 20 September 2005
- gouache on buff-coloured card
- 37 by 25cm., 14.5 by 10in.
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'MUCKISH FROM MARBLE HILL, COUNTY DONEGAL'
- Price Realised: 2,200
- Sale: 30 November 2004
- oil on canvas laid on board
- 25 by 34cm., 10 by 13.5in.
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'THE TURF STACK, DUGORT, ACHILL ISLAND'
- Price Realised: 1,800
- Sale: 24 November 2008
- watercolour over pencil
- 28 by 36cm., 11 by 14in.
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'THE DUCK POND'
- Price Realised: 1,400
- Sale: 18 November 2003
- watercolour and gouache on tinted paper
- 25 by 30cm., 10 by 12in.
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'ROSBEG, COUNTY DONEGAL'
- Price Realised: 1,300
- Sale: 16 September 2003
- watercolour
- 28 by 38cm., 11 by 15in.
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'STREET SCENE WITH VIEW OF CLOCK TOWER, 1910'
- Price Realised: 500
- Sale: 04 October 2010
- watercolour
- 23 by 14cm., 9 by 5.5in.
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'ON THE RIVER, SLIGO, 1930'
- Price Realised: 360
- Sale: 25 May 2020
- watercolour
- 8Ό x 11Όin. (20.96 x 28.58cm)