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ABSTRACT COMPOSITION, 1925 Mainie Jellett (1897-1944)
Signature: exhibition labels on reverse Medium: watercolour and gouache over pencil Dimensions: 17 by 24cm., 6.5 by 9.5in. Exhibited: 'Mainie Jellett: Abstracts', Neptune Gallery, Dublin, 4 September - 2 October 1980, catalogue no. 16 (illustrated in catalogue); 'Mainie Jellett (1897-1944)', Frederick Gallery, Dublin, 6 March - 3 April 1995, catalogue no. 50 In the catalogue notes to the Neptune Gallery exhibition, Bruce Arnold notes that this work is a “two-voiced” composition, so called because of the two central compositional elements, and that it was ... probably the earliest example of this type of abstract composition in the exhibition. It is also a study for a 1925 oil painting, which is illustrated on p. 98 of Bruce Arnold’s, Mainie Jellett and the Modern Movement in Ireland , Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1991, plate 136 more