[Leica] IMGs: Mary Swanzy exhibition at IMMA

[photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)]

Some really striking paintings, thanks for expanding my horizons!

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman

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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.
> 
> 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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