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mixed media on paper
31 x 25cm (12 x 10in)
Provenance: Peppercanister Gallery, Dublin (label verso);
Private Collection
€700-1,000 (£608-869)
Mary Swanzy Studio Sale Stamp on reverse
oil on board
25.5 x 30.5cm (10 x 12in)
Provenance: The Mary Swanzy Studio Sale, Christies, London,
10th May 2007, Lot 333;
Private Collection
€1,000-1,500 (£869-1,304)
signed lower left
oil on board
68 x 40.5cm (27 x 16in)
Provenance: Dawson Gallery, Dublin (label verso);
Collection of Miss Mary Gaynor;
De Vere’s Art Auction, 21st November 2000, Lot 337;
Private Collection
Exhibited: Irish Exhibition of Living Art (IELA)1966
€5,000-7,000 (£4,347-6,086)
The Irish landscape artist, figure painter and portraitist Nano Reid was born
in Drogheda, County Louth. In 1920, she won a scholarship to study fine art
painting and drawing at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art - now the
National College of Art and Design - under Harry Clarke. In 1925 she started
showing at the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA), submitting a total of 42
canvases until the late 1960s. In 1928, she went to Paris and enrolled briefly
at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, after which she spent a year in
London studying fine art at the Central School of Arts and Crafts under Ber-
nard Meninsky. An individual, expressionistic artist, Reid is acknowledged
to be one of the finest Irish woman painters of twentieth-century visual art in
Ireland. She used paint intuitively, employing a limited colour range such as
browns, greens and ochres, and applied the paint with a carefully controlled
spontaneity in which abstraction is combined with figuration. Her works are
represented in many public collections throughout Ireland.