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Frances J. Kelly ARHA (b.1908) STILL LIFE WITH LILLIES AND STAFFORDSHIRE FIGURINE with a storage ...

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Frances J. Kelly ARHA (b.1908) STILL LIFE WITH LILLIES AND STAFFORDSHIRE FIGURINE with a storage ...
Frances J. Kelly ARHA (b.1908)
STILL LIFE WITH LILLIES AND STAFFORDSHIRE FIGURINE
with a storage label of Nat Ross Furniture Depositories, Cork, on reverse
oil on canvas
64 by 76cm., 25 by 30in.
Provenance:
Mr Dalgleish, Cork; Raoul Millais (1901-1999) [British animal painter], Church
Westcote Manor, Cotswolds;
Private collection, Middlesex
Born in Co. Louth, Frances Kelly studied at the Metropolitan School of Art,
Dublin. In 1932, upon becoming the first student to win the Henry Higgins
travelling scholarship she went to Paris, studying there for three years under
the cubist painter Léopold Survage (1879-1968) and attending various other
schools there of drawing and painting. On her return to Dublin she exhibited
with the Dublin Painters and at the Dawson Gallery, also contributing to the RHA
and the Living Art exhibitions. She collaborated with Nano Reid (q.v.) on a
series of wall frescoes depicting scenes of Irish labour, which were
commissioned in the 1940s for the Four Provinces building in Harcourt Street
(these have since sadly been destroyed by developers in 1988). In the mid-1940s
she married the eminent Irish statesman, F. H. Boland (1904-1985), Ambassador to
the UK in the 1950s and later the first permanent Irish representative to the
UN. Kelly’s work has much in common with her slightly older contemporaries
Caroline Scally, Joan Jameson and Harriet Kirkwood.
€3,000-€4,000 (£2,100-£2,800 sterling approx.)