€360
Super Star Lot: A wonderful original Lilian Davidson (Bray, b.1879 - d.1954) oil on board painting titled "Seaweed, Cashel, Connemara," featuring a coastal landscape scene rendered in thick impasto in a tonal palette of orange ochres juxtaposed with the blue grey of the rocks. Initialed D. bottom left and housed in a high quality gilt frame. Artist's sticker with title along with Liam Slattery framer sticker to verso. Davidson was a beloved Irish artist with a very strong auction history, her works fetching upwards of €35,000 at Whyte's.
MM: 54 x 49 cm including frame
Lilian Davidson was born 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. www.whytes.ie 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 shoe 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. There is a video of this lot on our social media pages on Facebook, instagram and Tic Tok under South Dublin Auction.
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