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Frances J. Kelly ARHA (b.1908) STILL LIFE WITH FL

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Frances J. Kelly ARHA (b.1908) STILL LIFE WITH FL

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Auction Date:2005 Apr 26 @ 18:00 (UTC)
Location:Dublin, Ireland
Frances J. Kelly ARHA (b.1908) STILL LIFE WITH FLOWERS BEFORE A WINDOW<BR>signed lower left<BR>oil on canvas<BR>117 by 71cm., 46 by 28in.<BR><BR>Provenance:<BR>Purchased in Dublin, circa 1930s;<BR>By descent to the previous owner;<BR>By whom sold privately to the present owner<BR><BR>Frances Kelly studied at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art where she was a star pupil, exhibiting frequently at the RHA from the age of twenty-one. In 1932 she became the first recipient of the Henry Higgins travelling scholarship, which enabled her to go to Paris and study with the cubist painter Léopold Survage. She returned to Dublin and established herself primarily as a portrait painter; George Furlong, Basil Goulding, Joseph Hone, Frank O’Connor and Michael Scott were amongst her sitters. During the 1940s at her solo exhibitions with the Dawson Gallery and the Dublin Painters Gallery she also exhibited a notable number of still life paintings. S. B. Kennedy describes her “strong feeling for light, air and space, often rendered in pale colours and with a predominance of greys, against which she would set bright reds, violets and other colours which thrill with their radiance” (Irish Art and Modernism, page 58). After her marriage to Irish statesman F. H. Boland (1904-1985) and the birth of five daughters (including poet Eavan Boland) she moved to London then New York. Her last exhibited works were two Connemara landscapes in the Irish Living Art Exhibition of 1954.<BR>