Lilian Lucy Davidson, Irish, 1879-1954
Title: Fashions at the Fair
Date: 1940s
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
71 x 92 cm
Signed: lower left: LLD [in monogram]
Credit Line: Purchased, 2003
Object Number: NGI.4719
ProvenancePurchased, Adams & Bonhams, Dublin, Irish Sale, 28th May 2003, lot 87
Exhibition HistoryA Time and a Place. Two Centuries of Irish Social Life, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, 17 October 2006 - 28 January 2007

Taking Stock: Acquisitions 2000-2010, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, 13 March 2010 - 25 July 2010
Label TextDavidson’s bold pattern-making was ideally suited to the everyday Irish subjects she painted throughout her career. In this picture, the artist allows certain elements to stand out by dint of colour, shape or gesture. She was adept at exploiting tonal contrasts, exemplified here by the bands of colour on the woman’s shawl in the foreground and the piebald calf. Davidson travelled extensively in Ireland, visiting Donegal first in the 1920s and making subsequent trips around her native Wicklow, Achill, Connemara and Tyrone.

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