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Estella Frances Solomons HRHA
(1882-1968)
DONEGAL LANDSCAPE
oil on board
signed with initials lower left
12¼ by 15½in. (30 by 38cm)
Solomons married poet and publisher Seamus O’Sullivan (1879-
1958) (also known as James Sullivan Starkey) in 1929. As with
many of her works, he is featured here resting on a grassy patch
near the cliff face.
€
600-
€
800 (£480-£640 approx.)
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Mary Odell (c.1903-1976)
ARDMORE
oil on board
signed lower left; inscribed with title on reverse
13 by 14in. (33 by 36cm)
Mary Odell was the daughter of Isabel Mary Grant Odell (née
Ussher). She was born at Cappagh House, Co.Waterford, in 1902 or
1903 (she is recorded in the 1911 Census as 8 years old). Her
mother went to the Slade School of Fine Art in London and also
attended the Academie Julian in Paris. Later she exhibited at the
RHA. Mary’s training is unknown but she exhibited with her
mother at the Country Shop, Dublin in 1942, which was reviewed
in The Irish Times by Thomas McGreevy: “Mary Odell's Ardmore —
the Street…shows that the artist's feeling is for the brighter and
more dynamic aspects of the Irish scene. [She] has also an excellent
sense of atmosphere, and the light on the distant mountains in The
Twelve Pins is conveyed with a genuine suggestion of poetry, a
poetry which is also perceptible in the bright pinks and deep blues
of such pictures as Modeligo and The Round Tower. Mary Odell
died in Dublin in 1976.
€
400-
€
600 (£320-£480 approx.)
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Mildred Anne Butler RWS (1858-1941)
SUMMMER PASTURES
watercolour
with Wellesley Ashe Gallery, Dublin label on reverse
5 by 6.70in. (13 by 17cm)
€
700-
€
900 (£560-£720 approx.)