Stella Steyn
Steyn was born in Dublin and attended the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art under Patrick Tuohy. Her early work at the DMSA was influenced by Aubrey Beardsley and Harry Clarke, Tuohy introduced the influence of Paul Cιzanne. Steyn then travelled to Paris, studying at La Grande Chaumiθre and the Acadιmie Scandinave. In Paris, she met James Joyce and Samuel Beckett, being asked by Joyce to illustrate an edition of Finnegan's Wake. whytes.ie Steyn exhibited at the RHA, at the Painter's Gallery, St. Stephen's Green, the Tailteann Games, the 1928 Summer Olympics and the first Irish exhibition of contemporary art in Manhattan between 1927 and 1930. In 1931, Steyn enrolled in the Bauhaus, being taught by Kandinsky, Klee and Albers, the first known Irish artist to do so. In 1938 Steyn married the academic David Ross, settling in England and rarely displaying work. Retrospective exhibitions of her work in the Gorry Gallery and the Molesworth Gallery, 1995 and 2001 repectively, renewed interest in her work in Ireland.
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'WOMAN IN HAT, c.1950s (SET OF TWO)'
- Price Realised: 1,000
- Sale: 15 March 2010
- watercolour
- 41 by 22cm., 16 by 8.75in.
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'FLORAL STILL LIFE STUDY'
- Price Realised: 1,000
- Sale: 28 September 2009
- oil on board
- 67 by 57cm., 26.2 5 by 22.5in.
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'RECLINING WOMAN'
- Price Realised: 950
- Sale: 26 May 2014
- oil on canvas
- 24 by 36in., 60 by 90cm.
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'RECLINING WOMAN, c.1950'
- Price Realised: 850
- Sale: 15 March 2010
- watercolour
- 22 by 34cm., 8.5 by 13.5in.
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'FLORAL STILL LIFE'
- Price Realised: 800
- Sale: 01 October 2018
- oil on canvas
- 22 x 18in. (55.88 x 45.72cm)
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'DOUBLE PORTRAIT'
- Price Realised: 800
- Sale: 04 October 2010
- oil on canvas
- 51 by 76cm., 20 by 30in.
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'FIGURE WITH FLOWERS'
- Price Realised: 750
- Sale: 27 May 2019
- oil on canvas
- 30 x 25in. (76.20 x 63½cm)
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'TWO WOMEN, c.1950'
- Price Realised: 750
- Sale: 15 March 2010
- watercolour
- 22 by 32cm., 8.5 by 12.7 5in.
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'STILL LIFE OF TULIPS AND DAFFODILS'
- Price Realised: 750
- Sale: 30 November 2009
- oil on canvas
- 61 by 51cm., 24 by 20in.
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'STANDING NUDE'
- Price Realised: 660
- Sale: 12 December 2022
- oil on canvas
- 49Ύ x 24in. (126.37 x 60.96cm)
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'TWO SKETCHBOOKS, c.1960s'
- Price Realised: 580
- Sale: 30 May 2011
- pastel, chalk and pen and ink sketches on leaves of thin sketching paper within Rowney spiral bound sketchbooks
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'ADAM AND EVE'
- Price Realised: 560
- Sale: 25 July 2022
- oil on canvas board
- 21 x 17Όin. (53.34 x 43.82cm)
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'FIGURE STUDIES (A PAIR)'
- Price Realised: 560
- Sale: 30 September 2013
- watercolour over pencil; (2)
- 7.5 by 9.5in., 18.75 by 23.75cm.
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'AMARYLLIS IN A POT'
- Price Realised: 560
- Sale: 04 March 2013
- oil on board
- 29.5 by 19in., 73.75 by 47.5cm.
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'STANDING NUDE'
- Price Realised: 550
- Sale: 10 December 2016
- contι
- 13 x 9½in. (33.02 x 24.13cm)
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'THE ONDT'S FUNERAL'
- Price Realised: 550
- Sale: 21 September 2004
- lithograph (no. 6 in an edition of 12)
- 25 by 33cm., 10 by 13in.
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'PARIS CAFE, 1950'
- Price Realised: 500
- Sale: 15 March 2010
- pencil
- 17 by 19cm., 6.75 by 7.5in.
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'STILL LIFE WITH PEACHES AND MIXED FLOWERS'
- Price Realised: 440
- Sale: 11 December 2024
- oil on board
- 20 x 24in. (50.80 x 60.96cm)
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'VASE OF FLOWERS'
- Price Realised: 380
- Sale: 25 May 2020
- oil on canvas
- 24 x 20in. (60.96 x 50.80cm)
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'STILL LIFE, FRUIT AND BOWL'
- Price Realised: 380
- Sale: 10 December 2016
- oil on canvas
- 16½ x 22½in. (41.91 x 57.15cm)
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'BOY IN SCHOOL UNIFORM, c.1934-38'
- Price Realised: 280
- Sale: 11 December 2011
- oil on canvas
- 85 by 50cm., 33.5 by 19.5in.
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'IN THE GARDEN'
- Price Realised: 260
- Sale: 09 July 2018
- ink
- 5 x 8in. (12.70 x 20.32cm)
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'CLASSICAL FIGURES - NYMPH, SATYR AND CHERUB'
- Price Realised: 250
- Sale: 21 October 2024
- oil on canvas
- 32 x 24in. (81.28 x 60.96cm)
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'STANDING NUDE'
- Price Realised: 190
- Sale: 17 October 2022
- oil on paper
- 8 x 6in. (20.32 x 15.24cm)
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'RECLINING NUDE'
- Price Realised: 190
- Sale: 10 December 2016
- contι
- 9 x 16Ύin. (22.86 x 42.55cm)
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'WOMAN'
- Price Realised: 110
- Sale: 24 October 2016
- watercolour
- 15½ x 10½in. (39.37 x 26.67cm)
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'CUPID'
- Price Realised: 90
- Sale: 11 December 2011
- contι on paper
- 20 by 25cm., 7.75 by 9.75in.