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Subject: [Leica] IMGs: Mary Swanzy exhibition at IMMA
From: imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry)
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2019 23:38:12 +0000
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Yes Nathan, the girl threw a passable daub....

Douglas

On 10/02/2019 19:14, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> Some really striking paintings, thanks for expanding my horizons!
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> Cheers,
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>> On 9 Feb 2019, at 03:40, 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.
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>> There's a brief intro to her life and her work at this link on IMMA's 
>> Youtube channel
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>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=049g-w9xK5o
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>> I took 17 images with my Fuji X100s and here they are.
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>> 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.
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>> Douglas
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In reply to: Message from imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry) ([Leica] IMGs: Mary Swanzy exhibition at IMMA)
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