May Guinness
An early Irish modernist, a pupil of Andrι Lhote's and a friend and teacher to both Evie Hone and Mainie Jellet, May Guinness was born in 1863 in Ireland as Mary Catherine Guinness. She began exhibiting in 1892 with the WCSI, with whom she was to show more than 120 paintings over the next sixty years. In 1894 she travelled to the Cornish art colony of Newlyn, along with fellow watercolourist Mildred Anne Butler. www.whytes.ie Around 1910 she first visited France, finding inspiration there from various artists including Kees van Dongen (1877-1968). In Dublin she encouraged younger artists to experiment with colour and form, whilst applying herself to various mediums including fresco painting and decorative needlework. During the First World War she was a military nurse and was awarded the Croix de Guerre. She had an exhibition of her work at the St Stephens Green Gallery in 1922, and another ten years later at the Mills' Hall in Merrion Row. She exhibited with the Dublin Painters and the IELA, as well as at the Victor Waddington Galleries. A retrospective was held the year after her death at the Dawson Gallery, Dublin. Her painting 'A Religious Procession In Brittany' is in the NGI.
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'WOMAN WITH RED HAIR'
- Price Realised: 34,000
- Sale: 16 September 2019
- oil on board
- 26 x 20in. (66.04 x 50.80cm)
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'SAN MALO FROM ST. SERVAN, c.1925'
- Price Realised: 16,000
- Sale: 28 September 2020
- oil on canvas
- 25½ x 20in. (64.77 x 50.80cm)
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'STILL LIFE'
- Price Realised: 7,500
- Sale: 23 February 2015
- oil on canvas
- 29 x 36in. (73.66 x 91.44cm)
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'BRETON LACE MAKERS, 1909'
- Price Realised: 6,800
- Sale: 25 April 2006
- signed in monogram lower right; inscribed on reverse
- 19 by 24cm., 7.5 by 9.5in.
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'STILL LIFE WITH APPLES AND A WHITE CLOTH'
- Price Realised: 6,221
- Sale: 09 October 2001
- oil on canvas
- 44 by 60cm., 17.5 by 23.5in.
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'STILL LIFE WITH GREEN BOTTLE'
- Price Realised: 6,000
- Sale: 25 May 2015
- oil on canvas
- 25 x 20in. (63½ x 50.80cm)
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'STILL LIFE WITH GREEN BOTTLE'
- Price Realised: 5,400
- Sale: 24 November 2008
- oil on canvas
- 64 by 51cm., 25 by 20in.
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'LANDSCAPE WITH SHEEP AND HILLS'
- Price Realised: 2,158
- Sale: 13 June 2001
- watercolour
- 36 by 52cm., 14 by 20.5in.
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'PORTRAIT OF A GIRL, circa 1935'
- Price Realised: 1,700
- Sale: 19 September 2006
- Pastel, watercolour and gouache
- 30 by 24cm., 11.7 by 9.5in.
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'CAFE EN MONTMARTE'
- Price Realised: 1,500
- Sale: 29 September 2008
- pastel on paper
- 22 by 32cm., 8.75 by 12.5in.
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'HARBOUR SCENE'
- Price Realised: 1,300
- Sale: 25 November 2019
- watercolour
- 8 x 11Όin. (20.32 x 28.58cm)
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'TAHITIAN GIRL'
- Price Realised: 1,200
- Sale: 09 December 2006
- pastel on buff-coloured paper
- 25 by 20cm., 10 by 7.75in.
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'COUNTRY LANE AND COTTAGE'
- Price Realised: 508
- Sale: 26 June 2000
- watercolour over pencil
- 48 by 32cm., 19 by 12.5in.
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'SUNDIAL IN AN OLD SCOTCH GARDEN, 1902'
- Price Realised: 500
- Sale: 28 September 2009
- watercolour
- 26 by 23cm., 10.2 5 by 9in.