Patricia Griffith
Born in Dublin, the daughter of William Wallace, company secretary to Arthur Guinness, Pat Wallace studied art at the RHA, Dublin, and the Slade, London. In the mid-1930s she worked as a scene-painter at the Torch Theatre in Dublin. Her first solo show was held at the Dublin Painters Gallery in 1942. During the 1940s her husband William A. Griffith owned the Unicorn Restaurant, where he employed a number of European refugees, and where Pat Griffith painted murals. During this period she exhibited with the White Stag Group. She also painted murals for the Wallace family’s Old Head Hotel in Louisburgh, Co. Mayo. She exhibited with the Dublin Painters and at the RHA and the WCSI, specialising in children’s portraits. She died in Dublin, 1973. (See Snoddy). www.whytes.ie
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'RIVER SCENE WITH CHILDREN AND OIL-DRUMS'
- Price Realised: €9,800
- Sale: 19 September 2006
- oil on canvas
- 72 by 91cm., 28.2 5 by 36in.
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'CHILDREN OUTSIDE A GYPSY CARAVAN, 1935'
- Price Realised: €4,000
- Sale: 19 September 2006
- oil on canvas
- 71 by 89cm., 28 by 35in.
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'SEATED NUDE'
- Price Realised: €1,300
- Sale: 19 September 2006
- oil on canvas
- 61 by 51cm., 24 by 20in.