Leslie Mary MacWeeney
Born in Dublin, Leslie MacWeeney studied at the National College of Art under Seαn Keating and Maurice MacGonigal (q.v.). She was awarded a scholarship to the Ιcole des Beaux Arts, Paris, where she studied under Professor Souverbis. MacWeeney has been included in many group shows, making her debut at the RHA in 1957, and participating in (and helping to organise) the IELA (1954-1963), the Oireachtas (1955, 1962) and the WCSI (1963). Each time her address was given as Kilteragh Lodge, Foxrock, Co. Dublin. She was also included in the 1959 and 1961 Paris Biennales, and more recently in the Irish Women Artists exhibition, organised jointly by the National Gallery of Ireland and the Douglas Hyde Gallery in 1987. In the catalogue to this latter exhibition, Dorothy Walker gave high praise to MacWeeney's wall hangings of the Stations of the Cross, which now hang in the Corpus Christi Church, Knockanure, Co. Kerry. Walker deemed this series to be "one of the most important works of religious art in the sixties" and found in them "no false note, nothing maudlin, nothing trite, but a powerful emotional content" (pp.56-57). MacWeeney has also had solo shows at the Clog Gallery, Dublin (1957), and the Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles (1961), and several shows at the Dawson Gallery, Dublin. Her work is in the collections of the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaνon, TCD, the Thomas Haverty Trust, and the Santa Barbra Museum of Art, California.
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'GIRL'S HEAD IN THREE QUARTER PROFILE'
- Price Realised: 1,200
- Sale: 26 May 2007
- watercolour
- 37 by 27cm., 14.5 by 10.5in.
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'GIRL IN THE WOODS'
- Price Realised: 1,050
- Sale: 24 November 2014
- watercolour
- 29 x 19in. (73.66 x 48.26cm)
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'HEAD OF A GIRL'
- Price Realised: 800
- Sale: 26 May 2007
- watercolour on paper
- 28 by 21cm., 11 by 8.25in.
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'NUDE'
- Price Realised: 600
- Sale: 04 March 2013
- oil on board
- 24 by 12in., 60 by 30cm.
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'PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN'
- Price Realised: 500
- Sale: 23 October 2017
- watercolour
- 21½ x 14½in. (54.61 x 36.83cm)
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'GIRL IN LOVE II'
- Price Realised: 406
- Sale: 13 June 2001
- charcoal drawing
- 74 by 51cm., 29 by 20in.
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'FIGURE IV 1962'
- Price Realised: 320
- Sale: 09 July 2018
- gouache
- 19½ x 14½in. (49.53 x 36.83cm)
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'YOUNG GIRL'
- Price Realised: 275
- Sale: 03 April 2023
- watercolour
- 16Ύ x 10½in. (42.55 x 26.67cm)
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'Edmund Spenser, The Loves of Bregog and Mulla, with monotypes by Leslie MacWeeney'
- Price Realised: 200
- Sale: 09 December 2006
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'HEAD OF A GIRL'
- Price Realised: 140
- Sale: 17 July 2017
- watercolour
- 16Ό x 10Όin. (41.28 x 26.04cm)
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'GIRL AT THE WINDOW, 1962'
- Price Realised: 110
- Sale: 28 March 2022
- monochrome lithograph; (no. 27 from an edition of 70); (unframed)
- 20Ό x 15in. (51.44 x 38.10cm)