Alice Maher
Since the 1980s Alice Maher has been one of the leading contemporary artists in Ireland, challenging a stream of male-oriented neo-expressionism that had dominated much of Irish art. She has consistently challenged Irish Catholic ideas of the feminine, showing her women to be dreaming, thinking beings in mythological landscapes (see Fionna Barber, 'Familiar: Alice Maher, 1995', in Fintan Cullen [ed.], Sources in Irish Art: A Reader, Cork University Press, 2000, pp150-158). Maher studied in Dublin and at the Crawford School of Art in Cork. She was an award-winner at the GPA Exhibition of Emerging Artists in 1990. She had a one-person exhibition in Belfast in 1987 and in Limerick in 1989. Maher works in drawing and sculptural installation. She is represented by galleries in Dublin, London and New York.
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'COMA BERENICES, 1999'
- Price Realised: 8,000
- Sale: 26 November 2007
- charcoal on paper
- 183 by 151cm., 72 by 59.5in.
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'COMA BERENICES, 1999'
- Price Realised: 7,200
- Sale: 02 March 2009
- charcoal on paper
- 181 by 151cm., 71.2 5 by 59.5i
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'LOVERS, 2007'
- Price Realised: 5,000
- Sale: 30 November 2009
- charcoal on Arches paper
- 152 by 104cm., 60 by 41in.
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'COLLAR, 2003'
- Price Realised: 1,500
- Sale: 28 May 2018
- lambda print; (from an edition of 4)
- 24 x 24in. (60.96 x 60.96cm)
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'THE MISTAKE, 1994'
- Price Realised: 1,400
- Sale: 01 October 2018
- acrylic on paper
- 35½ x 32in. (90.17 x 81.28cm)
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'JARDIN DE MON COEUR, 1991 (SUITE OF 4)'
- Price Realised: 1,250
- Sale: 25 November 2013
- oil on paper; (4)
- 8.25 by 5.25in., 20.625 by 13.125cm.
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'PALISADE and HELMET, 2003'
- Price Realised: 1,200
- Sale: 21 May 2012
- lambada prints (each an edition of 12)
- 23.25 by 23.25in., 59.055 by 59.055cm.
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'THE SNAIL CHRONICLES, 2004 (SET OF FOUR)'
- Price Realised: 1,150
- Sale: 25 July 2016
- intaglio; (no. 2 from an edition of 30)
- 11Ό x 11Όin. (28.58 x 28.58cm)
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'WATCHING THE WIND, 1991'
- Price Realised: 500
- Sale: 11 December 2017
- gouache and gold paint on paper
- 8Ό x 11½in. (20.96 x 29.21cm)
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'COMA BERENICES, 1999'
- Price Realised: 450
- Sale: 21 May 2012
- etching and aquatint (no. 14 from an edition of 30)
- 19 by 16.5in., 48.26 by 41.91cm.
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'COMA BERENICES II, 1999'
- Price Realised: 400
- Sale: 21 May 2012
- etching and aquatint (no. 13 from an edition of 30)
- 19 by 16.5in., 48.26 by 41.91cm.
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'TRYST (THE EARTHLY GARDEN), 2009'
- Price Realised: 340
- Sale: 01 March 2021
- print; (no. 1 from an edition of 25)
- 14Ό x 9Ύin. (36.20 x 24.77cm)
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'RUTH'
- Price Realised: 150
- Sale: 09 December 2012
- etching
- 25.5 by 19.5in., 64.77 by 49.53cm.