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Mainie Jellett
STUDIO INTERIOR WITH SEATED NUDE (FACING AWAY)
Lot 34
Price Realised:
€850
Estimate:
€700 - €1,000
Mainie Jellett 1897-1944
STUDIO INTERIOR WITH SEATED NUDE (FACING AWAY)
Pencil, 10" x 12 ½" (25 x 31.5cm), signed and dated 1918.
Provenance: The Collection of Bruce Arnold.
Mainie Jellett's achievement as an artist stretched across a ...
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Lot 34
Mainie Jellett
STUDIO INTERIOR WITH SEATED NUDE (FACING AWAY)
Lot 34
Mainie Jellett
STUDIO INTERIOR WITH SEATED NUDE (FACING AWAY)
Estimate:
€700 - €1,000
Mainie Jellett 1897-1944
STUDIO INTERIOR WITH SEATED NUDE (FACING AWAY)
Pencil, 10" x 12 ½" (25 x 31.5cm), signed and dated 1918.
Provenance: The Collection of Bruce Arnold.
Mainie Jellett's achievement as an artist stretched across a range of media and styles, and it is a tribute to the serious scholarship around Jellett and the presentation of her work that she is acknowledged as such a brilliant draughtsman, with her drawings regarded as a central part of her work. Having studied under Orpen in Dublin and then in London with Walter Sickert, her great technical skill has a clear pedigree but, like these teachers, she was able to use the freedom and subtlety of charcoal, pencil, ink or wash to bring a particular mood or tone to a drawing.
Jellett's drawing of the model always takes her work beyond a technical exercise and she conveys an awareness of each individual sitter and evokes a specific mood. There is precision and detachment in the formal abstract idioms in which she later worked, and a similar awareness in her carefully-judged use of colour; Jellett's palette ranges enormously but always seems to respond to the individual work and to evolve within very considered tonal harmonies, much as the arrangement of shapes in her abstract works evolved from the starting-point of a single form.
The range of her drawing and her development as an artist is evident in the progression from the gentle perceptiveness of her early life drawings and head studies to the energetically angular line of later works, which were inspired by Chinese art in addition to the European modernism with which she is closely associated.
Dickon Hall, March, 2024
STUDIO INTERIOR WITH SEATED NUDE (FACING AWAY)
Pencil, 10" x 12 ½" (25 x 31.5cm), signed and dated 1918.
Provenance: The Collection of Bruce Arnold.
Mainie Jellett's achievement as an artist stretched across a range of media and styles, and it is a tribute to the serious scholarship around Jellett and the presentation of her work that she is acknowledged as such a brilliant draughtsman, with her drawings regarded as a central part of her work. Having studied under Orpen in Dublin and then in London with Walter Sickert, her great technical skill has a clear pedigree but, like these teachers, she was able to use the freedom and subtlety of charcoal, pencil, ink or wash to bring a particular mood or tone to a drawing.
Jellett's drawing of the model always takes her work beyond a technical exercise and she conveys an awareness of each individual sitter and evokes a specific mood. There is precision and detachment in the formal abstract idioms in which she later worked, and a similar awareness in her carefully-judged use of colour; Jellett's palette ranges enormously but always seems to respond to the individual work and to evolve within very considered tonal harmonies, much as the arrangement of shapes in her abstract works evolved from the starting-point of a single form.
The range of her drawing and her development as an artist is evident in the progression from the gentle perceptiveness of her early life drawings and head studies to the energetically angular line of later works, which were inspired by Chinese art in addition to the European modernism with which she is closely associated.
Dickon Hall, March, 2024
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PLEASE BID EARLY TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT.
In order to allow rival bidders the opportunity to respond to a late bid the following extensions will apply:
IF A BID IS RECEIVED WITHIN THE FINAL 45 SECONDS OF THE COUNTDOWN THE CLOCK WILL RESET TO 60 SECONDS.
At any point you can leave a maximum bid, representing the highest price you are prepared to pay for a particular lot. Bidding only advances when there is competition from a rival bidder. In that case the system bids on your behalf, only up to the maximum if required. All bids are relayed to you be email, along with notification if you have been outbid.
All maximum bids are confidential and not disclosed. The system will endeavor to purchase the lot for you for the least price. Bids are subject to buyer’s premium of 25% (incl vat), with no additional charges.
In the event of a tied bid, the preference will be given to the bid submitted first. The second bidder will receive immediate notification of being outbid.
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