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Nano Reid RHA (1900-1981) Tinkers in the Hillssigned lower right
oil on board
51.5 x 61cm (20 x 24in)
Provenance:
Dawson Gallery, Dublin (label verso)
Collection of William P. Mahoney Esq.
James Adam’s, Dublin 5th December 2006 Lot 107
Private Collection
€8,000-12,000 (£6,250-9,375)
The Irish landscape artist, figure painter and portraitist Nano Reid was born in Drogheda, County Louth. In 1920, she won a scholar-
ship 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 Bernard 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.