[Leica] IMGs: Mary Swanzy exhibition at IMMA

[Douglas Barry]

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