Whyte's IMPORTANT IRISH ART 6 MARCH 2023 AT 6PM

40 29 Lilian Lucy Davidson ARHA (1893-1954) REPAIRS, ARKLOW, COUNTY WICKLOW oil on board signed with monogram lower left; titled on artist’s label on reverse 17.50 by 23.50in. (44.5 by 59.7cm) Frame Size: 22 by 26.25in. (55.9 by 66.7cm) Exhibired: RHA, Dublin, 1949, catalogue no. 152 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. €8,000-€12,000 (£7,080-£10,620 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot29