Lot 51 Pauline Bewick

Pauline Bewick RHA b.1935 and Regine Bartsch b.1951 WOMAN WITH TWO BANTHAMS Hand woven tapestry, 60'' x 47'' (152 x120cm), signed. Pauline Bewick commissioned Bernard Battu, master weaver, from Aubusson France in 2003 to work on a collection of 10 tapestries on the theme of women, men, animals and nature; subject matter that is evident in much of Bewick's art. A large version of this earlier tapestry, woven by Regine Bartsch in the 1980's is one of the 10. Bartsch was born in Hamburg and moved to Ireland in 1978. In 1981 she set up her studio in Cahircivean, Co.Kerry where she still lives and works, she collaborated with Bewick on this particular tapestry as well as several others in the 1980's.