Mary Fedden
Born in Bristol, Mary Fedden studied at the Slade in London between 1932 and 1936, and worked initially as a set designer for the Sadlers Wells Ballet. During World War II she served in the Land Army and the Womans Voluntary Service. In 1946 she held her first solo exhibition at the Mansard Gallery, London. Over the following years she designed covers for Woman magazine and was commissioned to paint a mural for the 1951 Festival of Britain. www.whytes.ie In that year too she married fellow painter Julian Trevelyan. In 1958 she became the first woman to teach in the Painting School of the Royal College of Art, where her pupils included David Hockney and Allen Jones; she later also taught at the Yehudi Menuhin School. She exhibited regularly with such galleries as the Redfern and the New Grafton Gallery in London and the Arnolfini in Bristol and is represented in the Tate Gallery collection. Fedden was a regular visitor to Ireland, particularly West Cork, for several decades. She exhibited regularly at Warrens Boathouse Gallery in Castletownshend. www.whytes.ie
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'TWO MACKEREL, 2000'
- Price Realised: 14,000
- Sale: 25 April 2006
- signed and dated lower right; inscribed label on reverse
- 51 by 61cm., 20 by 24in.
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'STILL LIFE, 2007'
- Price Realised: 5,800
- Sale: 26 November 2018
- oil on canvas
- 23½ x 20in. (59.69 x 50.80cm)
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'STILL LIFE WITH FRUIT AND JUG, 1985'
- Price Realised: 5,400
- Sale: 26 May 2014
- oil on canvas
- 12 by 16in., 30 by 40cm.