€40
Star Lot: A stunning original Ruth Brandt (Irish, b.1936 - d.1989), limited edition (15/75) etching titled "Begonias" dated to 1974. This delicate study features a potted begonia plant with daintily rendered flowers and detailed leaves, featuring wonderful crosshatched shading throughout. Brandt has a good auction history, her etchings selling at Whyte's for €220. From a large private collection.
MM: 43 x 40 cm including frame.
Ruth Brandt was an Irish artist and teacher, who was known for drawing inspiration from nature for her work. Brandt first exhibited with the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1958, with the painting "At the Jazz Band Ball." She was also featured in the Irish Exhibition of Living Art in 1961, with three works. After this point, Brandt divided her time between teaching at NCAD and summer classes for children with her husband, and freelance lettering and illustration. Such illustration is her work in Sheelah Kirby's 1962 'The Yeats Country' and John Irvine's 1964 'A Treasury of Irish Saints.' Brandt designed the devices for the Dolmen Press and Poetry Ireland in the 1960s. The 1965 National Gallery of Ireland centenary exhibition about W. B. Yeats, ten black-ink drawings of Yeats' London homes by Brandt were displayed. The daughter of Muriel Brandt RHA (b.1909 - d.1981), Ruth Brandt won acclaim primarily as a printmaker and as a lecturer at NCAD from the mid-1970s onwards. She exhibited mainly with other women artists, including Barbara Warren RHA and Anita Shelbourne ARHA.
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