Mainie Jellett - part 3

An abstract and figure painter, Mainie Jellett started to take watercolour lessons as a young girl, later working under Sarah Cecilia Harrison and May Manning. She entered the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art in 1914 while William Orpen was teaching there. Three years later she went to study at the Westminster Art School in London with Walter Sickert. It was there that she met Evie Hone who became a life-long friend. In 1920 she won the Taylor Scholarship and this money allowed her to travel to Paris with Hone where they worked in André Lhote’s studio. Here they got their first taste of Cubism, however, after a while they both decided to move into the realm of pure abstract painting and transferred to work with Albert Gleizes. On her return to Ireland, Jellett continued to visit him during the summer for the next ten years. In Dublin she gave painting lessons from her home and began to exhibit her cubist paintings which received hostile criticism from George Russell. 

During the 1920s she exhibited regularly at the Dublin Painter’s Gallery while also showing at several exhibitions in Paris. Her art developed a greater realism in the 1930s and also became more religious in subject matter. She exhibited at the RHA from 1930 to 1937 while at the same time contributing to the Watercolour Society of Ireland until 1943. She became a leader in the modern movement in Ireland and joined the avant-garde group of painters, the White Stag in 1940, regularly lecturing and exhibiting with them. She exhibited in the first ever Irish Exhibition of Living Art where she had been appointed chairman but was unable to attend as she fell ill and died a short time later. Her works are in all the major Irish collections.

This is part 3 of 4 parts on the works of Mainie Jellett

Note: Not dated therefore in alphabetical sequence rather than date sequence:

n.d. Abstract Composition
gouache 30.5 x 25.4 cm

n.d. Abstract Composition
gouache 63.5 x 51.7 cm

n.d. Abstract Composition
gouache on card 20.9 x 10.8 cm

n.d. Abstract Composition
gouache on card 26.7 x 13.8 cm

n.d. Abstract Composition
oil on canvas 91.5 x 71 cm

n.d. Abstract Composition
pencil and gouache 25 x 18 cm

n.d. Abstract Composition
pencil on paper 27 x 17 cm

n.d. Abstract Compositions
pencil on paper 24 x 9 cm each

n.d. Abstract Composition ( Holy Family )
gouache over pencil on card 20 x 22 cm

n.d. Abstract Composition ( Pink and Aquamarine )
watercolour and gouache with pencil 22.5 x 17.5 cm

n.d. Abstract Composition
gouache 40 x 40 cm

n.d. Abstract Composition
gouache 53.3 x 22.2 cm

n.d. Abstract Composition
gouache 64.8 x 50.8 cm

n.d. Abstract Composition
oil on board 63.5 x 91.5 cm

n.d. Abstract Design
gouache 25.4 x 20.3 cm

n.d. Abstract Design
gouache 67.3 x 35.5 cm

n.d. Abstract
gouache 26.7 x 20.3 cm

n.d. Abstract
pencil on paper 26 x 20 cm

n.d. Abstract ( variation of the above )
pencil on paper 26.5 x 20 cm

n.d. Abstract Study
pencil on paper 20 x 25.5 cm

n.d. Achill
watercolour on paper 35.5 x 50.8 cm

n.d. Adoration of the Madonna and Child
tempera on panel 50 x 70 cm

n.d. Allegorical Scene
oil on canvas 51.2 x 82.6 cm
Ulster Museum, Belfast

n.d. Babbin and Betty on the Cliffs at Fintragh, Co. Donegal
watercolour on paper 25.5 x 36 cm

n.d. Babbin and Betty, Fitzwilliam Square
watercolour on paper 25 x 22 cm

n.d. Classical Subject - Four Nudes
oil on board 30 x 40 cm

n.d. Composition (676)
gouache 30.5 x 25.5 cm

n.d. Composition
gouache 23.5 x 19 cm

n.d. Composition
oil on canvas

n.d. Composition
watercolour and gouache with pencil 20 x 16 cm

n.d. Composition XIII
oil on canvas 39 x 49 cm

n.d. Composition
26 x 17 cm

n.d. Compostion for Five Elements
( details not found )

n.d. Composition
gouache 19 x 33.6 cm

n.d. Composition
pencil on paper 22.8 x 36.8 cm

n.d. Composition
pencil on paper 24.2 x 28.4 cm

n.d. Composition
pencil on transparent paper 20.3 x 15.2 cm

n.d. Composition
watercolour and gouache 26 x 20 cm

n.d. Composition
watercolour and gouache with pencil 20 x 16 cm

n.d. Cubist Composition
gouache on paper 14 x 20 cm

n.d. Cubist Composition
gouache on paper 18 x 15 cm

n.d. Cubist Composition
gouache on card 30.4 x 21.5 cm

n.d. Cubist Composition
gouache on paper 14 x 20.3 cm

n.d. Design for a Rug
gouache on board 36 x 25 cm

n.d. Female Nude Study
pen and ink on paper 26.7 x 26.7 cm

n.d. Head of a Woman
oil on canvas 40 x 46 cm
Ulster Museum, Belfast

n.d. Lady Reclining, Nude Study
watercolour on paper 8.9 x 21.5 cm

n.d. Landscape
watercolour 17.8 x 33.6 cm

n.d. Madonna and Child
gouache 40 x 19.7 cm

n.d. Madonna and Child
( squared for transfer )
pencil on paper 171 x 17 cm

n.d. Norfolk Square, London
oil on canvas 56 x 38 cm

n.d. Peace
oil on canvas 61 x 81.3 cm