[Leica] IMGs: Mary Swanzy exhibition at IMMA

[Douglas Barry]

Jim, Jayanand, thanks for commenting.
Douglas


On 09/02/2019 05:10, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG wrote:
> 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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