WHYTE'S IRISH & INTERNATIONAL ART 6 JUNE 2022 AT 6PM

64 45 Lilian Lucy Davidson ARHA (1893-1954) FAIR DAY, WESTPORT, COUNTY MAYO, c.1943 oil on canvas signed with monogram lower left; titled on label on reverse 26 by 30in. (66 by 76.2cm) Frame Dimensions: 33.5 by 38in. (85.1 by 96.5cm) Exhibited: RHA, Dublin, 1943, catalogue no. 167; ’Irish Women Artists, 1870-1970’, Adam’s, Dublin and Ava Gallery, Co. Down, July to September 2014, catalogue no. 78 Lilian Davidson came from humble beginnings in Bray, Co. Wicklow where she was educated privately before attending the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art. She was closely associated with the Watercolour Society of Ireland with whom she exhibited from 1912 until 1953 and with the RHA which exhibited 135 works by the artist over a forty-year period from 1914. Davidson exhibited widely with the Dublin Painters’ exhibitions, the Oireachtas and in 1920 in a joint show with Mainie Jellett. She is also recorded as exhibiting abroad in the 1930s in London, Amsterdam, Chicago and at the Salon de la Société Nationale in Paris (1924 and 1930). A solo show in Dublin was held in 1936 which comprised 36 works, among them a portrait of George Russell. In 1940 she was made an Associate to the RHA. Davidson set up a studio and taught in Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin where she counted among her protégés; Bea Orpen and Kitty Wilmer O’Brien. She was closely associated with theatre in Dublin and designed sets, wrote plays and painted scenery for the Torch Theatre which she helped found in the 1930s. €20,000-€30,000 (£17,090-£25,640 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot45