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Nano Reid (1900-1981)

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Nano Reid (1900-1981)
Nano Reid (1900-1981) HEAD OF A REFUGEE signed lower right oil on canvas 53 by 47cm., 21 by 18.5in. Provenance: Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin; Collection of Z. Lewinter-Frankl (collection no. 107); Pym's Gallery, London; Private collection, Hampshire Exhibited: 'The Lewinter-Frankl Collection', Belfast, 1958, catalogue no. 67; 'Celtic Splendour: An Exhibition of Irish Paintings and Drawings 1850-1950', Pym's Gallery, London, 1985, catalogue no. 39 (where it was titled 'Head of a Young Man'). Literature: Patrick Swift, 'Nano Reid', Envoy, Vol. I, No. 4, March 1950 (discusses Reid's portraiture, a rather neglected area of her oeuvre, particularly in reference to a very similar work, 'Portrait of a Young Man'). Arthur Campbell, Looking Back: photographs, 1939-1960, Friar's Bush Press, Belfast, 1989 (reproduces the b&w photograph of Reid at work on the painting, which is here titled 'The Cosmopolitan'). Declan Mallon, Nano Reid 1900-1981, Sunnyside Publications, Drogheda, 1994, p.43.€6000-€8000 (IR £4700-£6200 approx.)
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