Mainie Jellett
An abstract and figure painter, Jellett started to take watercolour lessons as a young girl, later working under Sarah Cecilia Harrison and May Manning. She entered the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art in 1914 while William Orpen was teaching there. Three years later she went to study at the Westminster Art School in London with Walter Sickert. It was there that she met Evie Hone who became a life-long friend. In 1920 she won the Taylor Scholarship and this money allowed her to travel to Paris with Hone where they worked in Andrι Lhotes studio. Here they got their first taste of Cubism, however, after a while they both decided to move into the realm of pure abstract painting and transferred to work with Albert Gleizes. On her return to Ireland, Jellett continued to visit him during the summer for the next ten years. In Dublin she gave painting lessons from her home and began to exhibit her cubist paintings which received hostile criticism from George Russell. During the 1920s she exhibited regularly at the Dublin Painters Gallery while also showing at several exhibitions in Paris. Her art developed a greater realism in the 1930s and also became more religious in subject matter. She exhibited at the RHA from 1930 to 1937 while at the same time contributing to the Watercolour Society of Ireland until 1943. She became a leader in the modern movement in Ireland and joined the avant-garde group of painters, the White Stag in 1940, regularly lecturing and exhibiting with them. She exhibited in the first ever Irish Exhibition of Living Art where she had been appointed chairman but was unable to attend as she fell ill and died a short time later. Her works are in all the major Irish collections.
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'PORTRAIT OF A MAN WITH BLACK HAT AND WHITE MOUSTACHE'
- Price Realised: 1,000
- Sale: 28 March 2022
- oil on canvas
- 21 x 16in. (53.34 x 40.64cm)
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'ABSTRACT COMPOSITION'
- Price Realised: 1,000
- Sale: 25 November 2013
- gouache
- 10 by 4in., 25 by 10cm.
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'UNTITLED'
- Price Realised: 1,000
- Sale: 09 December 2006
- pencil on paper
- 17 by 25cm., 6.5 by 9.75in.
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'COMPOSITION'
- Price Realised: 1,000
- Sale: 28 November 2006
- pencil on paper
- 20 by 10cm., 8 by 3.75in.
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'RELIGIOUS ABSTRACT'
- Price Realised: 850
- Sale: 30 November 2009
- watercolour and pencil on paper
- 11 by 23cm., 4.5 by 9in.
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'COMPOSITION'
- Price Realised: 850
- Sale: 09 December 2006
- pencil on paper
- 27 by 21cm., 10.7 5 by 8.25in.
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'ABSTRACT COMPOSITION'
- Price Realised: 800
- Sale: 24 October 2016
- gouache on card
- 8Ό x 4Όin. (20.96 x 10.80cm)
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'CROWS AMONG THE BARLEY STOOKS, c.1919'
- Price Realised: 800
- Sale: 25 November 2013
- watercolour
- 14.5 by 10in., 36.25 by 25cm.
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'STUDY FOR SEA RHYTHM, c.1926'
- Price Realised: 800
- Sale: 18 May 2009
- pen and ink on transparent paper
- 21 by 27cm., 8.25 by 10.5in.
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'TWO VOICE ABSTRACT, circa 1924'
- Price Realised: 800
- Sale: 15 December 2007
- pencil on paper
- 23 by 19cm., 9 by 7.5in.
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'STUDY FOR COMPOSITION WITH FIVE ELEMENTS'
- Price Realised: 800
- Sale: 15 December 2007
- pencil on tracing paper
- 27 by 21cm., 10.5 by 8.25in.
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'PORTRAIT OF A MAN WITH BLACK HAT AND WHITE MOUSTACHE'
- Price Realised: 700
- Sale: 11 December 2011
- oil on canvas
- 53 by 41cm., 21 by 16in.
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'HOSPITAL MURAL DESIGN'
- Price Realised: 600
- Sale: 25 March 2024
- gouache
- 8Ύ x 8in. (22.23 x 20.32cm)
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'PORTRAIT OF A LADY, 1918'
- Price Realised: 600
- Sale: 25 July 2016
- pencil
- 8 x 6½in. (20.32 x 16.51cm)
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'A POSTER FOR 'CUBIST PAINTINGS AND RUGS EXHIBITION', 18 - 30 NOVEMBER, 1929'
- Price Realised: 600
- Sale: 30 November 2009
- pencil (squared for transfer)
- 31 by 23cm., 12.2 5 by 9in.
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'THE VIRGIN AND CHILD ENTHRONED AND FLANKED BY ANGELS, late 1930s'
- Price Realised: 550
- Sale: 30 November 2009
- pencil
- 30 by 22cm., 12 by 8.75in.
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'STUDIO STUDY OF A LADY IN COSTUME, 1919'
- Price Realised: 520
- Sale: 06 December 2008
- pencil on paper
- 28 by 25cm., 11 by 9.75in.
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'COMPOSITION'
- Price Realised: 500
- Sale: 12 March 2012
- pencil on transparent paper
- 20.32 by 15.24cm., 8 by 6in.
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'NUDE'
- Price Realised: 420
- Sale: 23 October 2017
- charcoal
- 12½ x 11½in. (31Ύ x 29.21cm)
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'Eileen McArville (ed.), Mainie Jellett: The Artist's Vision, Lectures and Essays on Art'
- Price Realised: 300
- Sale: 27 May 2006
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'COLLECTION OF EPHEMERA COMPRISING HANDWRITTEN NOTES, CORRESPONDENCE AND A NOTICE OF MEETING (1918)'
- Price Realised: 260
- Sale: 30 May 2011
- notes (2 folios); postcards(1); notice letter (1)
- 19 by 28cm., 7.5 by 11in.
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'Four posthumous exhibition catalogues, 1971-1991'
- Price Realised: 200
- Sale: 09 December 2006
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'The Artist's Vision: Lectures and Essays on Art'
- Price Realised: 200
- Sale: 10 December 2005