WHYTE'S IMPORTANT IRISH ART 28 November 2022 at 6pm

153 IMPORTANT IRISH ART · 28 NOVEMBER 2022 AT 6PM 114 Mary Duncan (1885-1964) TULIPS oil on panel signed lower centre; with original label on reverse inscribed with title, price and artist’s address in Penzance 20 by 16in. (50.8 by 40.6cm) Frame Size: 24 by 20in. (61 by 50.8cm) Provenance: Whyte’s, 20 September 2005, lot 83; Private collection Born in England, Mary Duncan studied at the Bromley School of Art, the Slade and in Paris. In 1907 she began exhibiting with the RSA, giving an address in Glasgow, and three years later had arrived in Dublin, taking studios firstly in North Great George’s Street, then in Brunswick Street (now Pearse Street). In Dublin she renewed her friendship with Estella Solomons, whom she had known at the Slade; a portrait of Solomons by Duncan is in Trinity College. She remained in Dublin for over a decade, before moving to London and later Cornwall. During the 1920s she showed regularly at the RHA, the RSA and the RA. She also had a show at the Arlington Gallery in London, alongside Estella Solomons and Louise Jacobs. Duncan’s work is in the collections of the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, the Model and Niland Centre in Sligo, and the National Portrait Gallery in London among others. €1,000-€1,500 (£860-£1,290 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot114