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Subject: [Leica] IMGs: Mary Swanzy exhibition at IMMA
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2019 10:40:35 +0530
References: <277454dd-102e-87be-7c34-79d796e86ff1@iol.ie>

Wonderful stuff. TFS.

That said, my favourite photograph is the second in your series.

Cheers
Jayanand

On Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 8:10 AM Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:

> The Irish Museum of Modern Art is based at the old Royal Hospital at
> Kilmainham in Dublin. The building was constructed in 1684 and was
> modelled on the layout of Les Invalides in Paris. It's a wonderful
> exhibition space and my wife went there as part of her Culture group
> which has about twenty women in it. I was allowed to tag along as I was
> her driver and I'm distantly related - 5th cousin - to the pioneering
> Irish woman artist Mary Swanzy whose work was being given a
> retrospective. Mary Swanzy (1882-1978) also studied and worked in Paris
> and was quite eclectic with her many styles of painting. While the art
> world has seen the work of her contemporaries there - Picasso, Chagall,
> etc - shoot up in value, her works have stayed in the thousands, rather
> than the millions spent on her male fellows.
>
> There's a brief intro to her life and her work at this link on IMMA's
> Youtube channel
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=049g-w9xK5o
>
> I took 17 images with my Fuji X100s and here they are.
>
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/IMMA+Dublin/IMMA+1_+side+entrance.jpg.html
> and click to the right to see the rest. All can be seen LARGE.
>
> Douglas
>
>
>
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