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Paula MacWhite (1896 - 1981)
Estimate:
€1,000 - €1,500
Sold
€1,600
Live Auction
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ARTIST
Paula MacWhite (1896 - 1981)
Size
21.50 by 26in. (54.6 by 66cm)
Description
Title: THE CHURCH OF SAINT BARNABA, VENICE
Note: Paula MacWhite (nee Gruttner) was a Danish artist who studied in Paris, where she met and married, in 1921, the Irish diplomat Michael MacWhite (1883 - 1958).Michael MacWhite was Ireland's the Irish Free State's first plenipotentiary to the League of Nations (now the United Nations) in Geneva (from 1921-1929). In 1929 he was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary to the United States based at Washington DC. Between 1938-1950 MacWhite was appointed as the Irish Free State's Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary to Italy.
Note: Paula MacWhite (nee Gruttner) was a Danish artist who studied in Paris, where she met and married, in 1921, the Irish diplomat Michael MacWhite (1883 - 1958).Michael MacWhite was Ireland's the Irish Free State's first plenipotentiary to the League of Nations (now the United Nations) in Geneva (from 1921-1929). In 1929 he was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary to the United States based at Washington DC. Between 1938-1950 MacWhite was appointed as the Irish Free State's Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary to Italy.
Medium
oil on canvas
Signature
signed lower left
Provenance
Sheppard's, Durrow, c. 1973;Private collection
Exhibited
Daniel Egan's Gallery, Dublin, August 1926
