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Alicia Boyle RBA (1908-1997)
Estimate:
€1,500 - €2,000
Sold
€1,500
Live Auction
Irish & International Art Auction
ARTIST
Alicia Boyle RBA (1908-1997)
Size
30 by 20in. (76.2 by 50.8cm)
Description
Title: WHITE BRYONY, 1944
Note: Inscriptions on reverse read: "Painted in 1944 from Julian Flaxman who subsequently became the actress Julia Flaxman. One of her best roles was Ariel in the Tempest, Liverpool playhouse and London. She is now Sr. Mary Radegunde of the Sisters of the Holy Child Jesus. Varnished with Winton picture varnish '59, Zaine in Belfast Museum with Mrs. Crookshank, Exhibited by CEMA (Northern Ireland, Belfast, 1950: Painted 1944.Flaxman, Radegunde A Woman Styled Bold: Life of Cornelia Connelly, 1809-79, London, UK, Darton, Longman & Todd, 1991".
Note: Inscriptions on reverse read: "Painted in 1944 from Julian Flaxman who subsequently became the actress Julia Flaxman. One of her best roles was Ariel in the Tempest, Liverpool playhouse and London. She is now Sr. Mary Radegunde of the Sisters of the Holy Child Jesus. Varnished with Winton picture varnish '59, Zaine in Belfast Museum with Mrs. Crookshank, Exhibited by CEMA (Northern Ireland, Belfast, 1950: Painted 1944.Flaxman, Radegunde A Woman Styled Bold: Life of Cornelia Connelly, 1809-79, London, UK, Darton, Longman & Todd, 1991".
Medium
oil on canvas laid on panel
Signature
signed and dated lower left; signed and inscribed on labels on reverse
Provenance
Metropol Auktioner, Stockholm, Sweden, 25 November 2019, lot 4603;Private collection
Exhibited
CEMA, Belfast, 1950
