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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'WESTERN LANDSCAPE STUDY, 1940'
- Price Realised: 3,500
- Sale: 02 October 2017
- watercolour
- 11 x 16in. (27.94 x 40.64cm)
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'DESIGN FOR A RUG (CEADOGAN - MAINIE JELLETT 13)'
- Price Realised: 3,500
- Sale: 15 March 2010
- gouache
- 36 by 25cm., 14 by 10in.
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'COMPOSITION'
- Price Realised: 3,200
- Sale: 02 October 2017
- gouache
- 7½ x 13Όin. (19.05 x 33.66cm)
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'ABSTRACT WITH STEPPED COMPOSITION'
- Price Realised: 3,200
- Sale: 19 November 2002
- gouache over pencil on card
- 17 by 16cm., 6.5 by 6.25in.
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'COMPOSITION, 1924'
- Price Realised: 3,000
- Sale: 26 September 2016
- gouache
- 6Ύ x 9Ύin. (17.15 x 24.77cm)
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'UNTITLED ABSTRACT, 1940'
- Price Realised: 3,000
- Sale: 30 November 2009
- pencil and gouache heightened with white over pencil
- 25 by 18cm., 10 by 7in.
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'BABBIN AND BETTY, FITZWILLIAM SQUARE, DUBLIN, 1918'
- Price Realised: 2,900
- Sale: 26 September 2022
- watercolour
- 9Ύ x 8½in. (24.77 x 21.59cm)
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'CUBIST COMPOSITION'
- Price Realised: 2,400
- Sale: 14 March 2011
- gouache
- 26 by 10cm., 10.2 5 by 4in.
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'FOUR STUDIES'
- Price Realised: 2,200
- Sale: 09 March 2020
- gouache
- 4½ x 10Όin. (11.43 x 26.04cm)
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'THREE STUDIES FOR THE MADONNA ENTHRONED'
- Price Realised: 2,200
- Sale: 15 December 2007
- gouache on tracing paper; three works framed as one
- 10 by 5cm., 3.75 by 2in.
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'MADONNA AND CHILD, 1925'
- Price Realised: 2,000
- Sale: 28 September 2015
- gouache and pencil on board
- 10 x 4Όin. (25.40 x 10.80cm)
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'FEMALE NUDE, 1920'
- Price Realised: 2,000
- Sale: 29 November 2010
- pencil on paper
- 18 by 28cm., 7 by 11in.
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'ABSTRACT (SINGLE ELEMENT COMPOSITION)'
- Price Realised: 2,000
- Sale: 19 September 2006
- Gouache over pencil (oval)
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'COMPOSITION'
- Price Realised: 1,700
- Sale: 28 September 2020
- pencil
- 9 x 7in. (22.86 x 17.78cm)
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'ABSTRACT STUDY (SINGLE ELEMENT COMPOSITION)'
- Price Realised: 1,700
- Sale: 22 February 2005
- gouache over pencil on paper mounted on board
- 12 by 23cm., 4.75 by 9.25in.
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'SEATED WOMAN'
- Price Realised: 1,650
- Sale: 09 October 2001
- pencil
- 30 by 24cm., 12 by 9.5in.
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'YOUGHAL, COUNTY CORK'
- Price Realised: 1,600
- Sale: 27 November 2017
- gouache
- 16 x 19½in. (40.64 x 49.53cm)
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'LANDSCAPE, 1941'
- Price Realised: 1,600
- Sale: 23 October 2017
- watercolour
- 7 x 13Όin. (17.78 x 33.66cm)
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'THE STRAND AT KEEL, ACHILL, COUNTY MAYO'
- Price Realised: 1,500
- Sale: 28 November 2016
- gouache
- 10½ x 14in. (26.67 x 35.56cm)
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'CHILD AND CART, AUGUST 1918'
- Price Realised: 1,500
- Sale: 14 March 2011
- watercolour
- 14 by 23cm., 5.5 by 9in.
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'CUBIST COMPOSITION'
- Price Realised: 1,450
- Sale: 14 March 2011
- gouache on paper
- 14 by 20cm., 5.5 by 8in.
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'ABSTRACT COMPOSITION'
- Price Realised: 1,350
- Sale: 17 February 2004
- pencil on paper
- 27 by 17cm., 10.5 by 6.5in.
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'COMPOSITION'
- Price Realised: 1,300
- Sale: 18 November 2003
- ink and wash on board
- 17 by 22cm., 6.5 by 8.5in.
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'CUBIST FIGUIRE STUDY'
- Price Realised: 1,269
- Sale: 08 March 2000
- gouache
- 0 by 0cm., by in.
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'STUDY FOR DECORATION, circa 1923'
- Price Realised: 1,200
- Sale: 15 December 2007
- pen and ink with sepia wash on paper laid on card
- 22 by 14cm., 8.5 by 5.5in.
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'RUG DESIGN'
- Price Realised: 1,150
- Sale: 31 May 2010
- gouache
- 16 by 16cm., 6.25 by 6.25in.
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'COMPOSITION WITH THREE ELEMENTS and RUG DESIGN (A PAIR)'
- Price Realised: 1,100
- Sale: 18 November 2003
- pencil on paper
- 20 by 27cm., 8 by 10.5in.
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'PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN'
- Price Realised: 1,079
- Sale: 09 October 2001
- pencil
- 18 by 18cm., 7 by 7in.