Lot 10 Norah McGuinness

Norah McGuinness HRHA, 1901-1980 MENDING THE NETS AT COLIEMORE HARBOUR, DALKEY Oil on canvas, 20'' x 24'' (51 x 61cm), signed. Provenance: The Dawson Gallery, Dublin (label verso); Corporate Collection, Dublin. From the time she entered the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art in 1921 having won a three year scholarship, McGuinness was assured success as an artist. In 1924 she exhibited her first painting at the RHA at the tender age of 23. Throughout her life she excelled not only as a landscape painter but also in the fields of design and illustration. In 1929, following the break up of her marriage, she went off to study in Paris under Andre L'Hote, she came back to settle in London and exhibited widely. In 1940 she returned to Ireland. She went on to exhibit with Victor Waddington and was to become a founding member of the Irish Exhibition of Living Art in 1943. In 1950 she was chosen to represent Ireland in the Venice Biennale. Harbour scenes, the Irish landscape in all seasons, were favourite subject matter. This particular painting shows McGuinness at her very best.