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128 Paul Nietsche RUA (1885-1950) Self Portrait (1944)signed top right & dated 1944
oil on canvas board
69 x 52cm (27 x 20in)
Provenance:
The Bell Gallery, Belfast (label verso);
Collection of Mr. P. Falloon 1944;
Nicholas Gallery, Belfast;
Private Collection
Exhibited:
Paul Nietsche Retrospective: Art’s Council of Northern Ireland, catalogue ref: no.29
€1,500-2,500 (£1,304-2,173)
Originally from the Ukraine, Nietsche first came to Ireland in 1926 on the invitation of Dr Michael O’Brien, a Gaelic scholar at
Queen’s University, whom he had met in Germany. Their friendship was such that Nietsche even held several small one-man
exhibitions in O’Brien’s Belfast home. Nietsche established himself mainly as a painter of still-life and landscapes, and was
one of the most avant-garde painters in Belfast in the thirties and forties.