Lot 23 Mainie Jellett

Mainie Jellet, 1897-1944 ABSTRACT COMPOSITION Oil on canvas, 36'' x 28'' (91.5 x 71cm), signed verso and dated 1929 Provenance: Sothebys Irish Art Sale, 11th May, 2006 (lot 104). Executed circa 1929. Jellett had studied with both Andre L'hote and Albert Gleizes in the early 1920s and their influence is apparent in the combination of bold colour and abstract form in the present work. The curved forms are closely related to Jellett's series of cubist works based on the Mother and Child theme and also demonstrate her knowledge of Gleizes's principal of 'translation' and 'rotation'. During the 1920s, she developed compositions from those with a single element rotated on a single axis to more complex compositions with rotations of seven and eight elements.