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Charlotte Katherine MacCausland (1860-1930)
Estimate:
€8,000 - €10,000
Sold
€7,000
Live Auction
Irish & International Art
Size
34 by 20in. (86.4 by 50.8cm)
Description
Title: YOUNG GIRL DARNING, 1887
Note: Charlotte Katherine MacCausland was born in Dublin in 1860. Nothing is known about her education but she must have had an aptitude for art which is shown by her paintings. She moved to England in the 1880s, and exhibited several pictures at the Royal Academy (1886-1904) as well as at the R.B.A., the R.O.I., and other institutions. She moved to Paris in the mid 1880s, and studied with various artists including Carolus-Duran, and Henner, as well as at the Academie Julian with Robert-Fleury, Lefebvre and Boulanger. MacCausland exhibited at the Societé des Artistes Françaises, 1886-89, the Societé National des Beaux-Arts, 1896-99, and at the Salon des Independents, 1905-12. The majority of her exhibits were depictions of young women, similar to the present work.She moved to Grez, about 1889, where she became friends with Roderic O'Conor, Frank Chadwick and his Swedish wife Emma Lowestadt and especially with Guy Ferris Maynard (1856-1936) from Chicago. She and Maynard lived together for many years. MacCausland began to visit Brittany in the 1890s, and she was in Pont-Aven in the mid 1890s. In 1899 she is recorded as staying in Le Pouldu on the Breton coast, where Gauguin had paintedAt Pont-Aven she became acquainted with Charles Filiger, one of the original members of Gauguin's Pont- Aven circle, and Matthew and Gwen Smith.. In 1912 she moved,with Maynard to Concarneau. Guy Maynard returned to America in the 1920s and Katharine died at Concarneau in 1930Several of McCausland's paintings are in municipal and private collections in Grez and elsewhere in Brittany. Her work was included in major exhibitions such as 'The Irish Impressionists' at the National Gallery in 1984, and 'Irish Painters in Brittany' at Pont-Aven in 1999. She is one of the more talented of Ireland's emigré artists of the 19th century, if little known in her native country.
Note: Charlotte Katherine MacCausland was born in Dublin in 1860. Nothing is known about her education but she must have had an aptitude for art which is shown by her paintings. She moved to England in the 1880s, and exhibited several pictures at the Royal Academy (1886-1904) as well as at the R.B.A., the R.O.I., and other institutions. She moved to Paris in the mid 1880s, and studied with various artists including Carolus-Duran, and Henner, as well as at the Academie Julian with Robert-Fleury, Lefebvre and Boulanger. MacCausland exhibited at the Societé des Artistes Françaises, 1886-89, the Societé National des Beaux-Arts, 1896-99, and at the Salon des Independents, 1905-12. The majority of her exhibits were depictions of young women, similar to the present work.She moved to Grez, about 1889, where she became friends with Roderic O'Conor, Frank Chadwick and his Swedish wife Emma Lowestadt and especially with Guy Ferris Maynard (1856-1936) from Chicago. She and Maynard lived together for many years. MacCausland began to visit Brittany in the 1890s, and she was in Pont-Aven in the mid 1890s. In 1899 she is recorded as staying in Le Pouldu on the Breton coast, where Gauguin had paintedAt Pont-Aven she became acquainted with Charles Filiger, one of the original members of Gauguin's Pont- Aven circle, and Matthew and Gwen Smith.. In 1912 she moved,with Maynard to Concarneau. Guy Maynard returned to America in the 1920s and Katharine died at Concarneau in 1930Several of McCausland's paintings are in municipal and private collections in Grez and elsewhere in Brittany. Her work was included in major exhibitions such as 'The Irish Impressionists' at the National Gallery in 1984, and 'Irish Painters in Brittany' at Pont-Aven in 1999. She is one of the more talented of Ireland's emigré artists of the 19th century, if little known in her native country.
Medium
oil on canvas
Signature
signed and dated lower left
