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Sìne MacKinnon (1901-1996) CHILDREN WITH A DONKEY OUTSIDE FARM BUILDINGS IN A VALLEY signed lower...

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Sìne MacKinnon (1901-1996) CHILDREN WITH A DONKEY OUTSIDE FARM BUILDINGS IN A VALLEY signed lower...
Sìne MacKinnon (1901-1996)
CHILDREN WITH A DONKEY OUTSIDE FARM BUILDINGS IN A VALLEY
signed lower right
oil on canvas
65 by 81cm., 25.5 by 32in.
A view most probably based on the artist’s travels in Spain. An alternate
setting may be Greece, but an art critic for The Studio in 1940 noted the
absence of human figures in her French, Grecian and Portugese works (see Snoddy,
p. 395). MacKinnon was born in Newcastle, Co. Down, and often painted in Galway
as a young girl. She went to school in England and studied at the Slade. In 1929
the Fine Arts Society held a joint exhibition of Connemara paintings by
MacKinnon and Stephen Bone. She later showed at the Reid, Redfern, Leicester,
Lefèvre and Arthur Tooth Galleries, London, exhibiting mostly landscapes, still
life studies, and occasionally surrealist pictures.
€3,000-€4,000 (£2,000-£2,700 sterling approx.)