€410
Star lot: A stunning original oil on canvas painting by the well known artist Stella Steyn featuring two still lives of wilting flowers in light pastel tones in loose impressionistic brushwork. Steyn sells splendedly at auction, fetching up to €9000 at Whytes.
Provenance: Studio Sale, Thomson Roddick & Medcalf, 2005.
Mm: 55 x 65 cm in frame.
Born in Dublin to émigré parents who had moved to Limerick in the 1870s from Eastern Europe. Like other contemporary artists, Evie Hone and Mainie Jellett, Steyn travelled to Paris in the 1926 to study, accompanied by her mother and fellow artist Hilda Roberts. She works with a vibrant colour palette rendered with thick expressive brush strokes. Her compositions, often still life studies, have a distinct sense of her absorbing a French artistic influence, most notably Cezanne in her treatment of line and form, often slightly abstracted shapes with bold outlines.
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