Lot 482: Guinness (May, 1863-1955). St. Malo from St.

Guinness (May, 1863-1955). St. Malo from St. Servan, oil on canvas, signed lower left, additionally titled and signed to canvas verso, 65 x 51cm (25.5 x 20ins), gilt frame. Exhibited: Museé des Beaux-Arts de Pont-Aven, Brittany, Peintres Irlandais en Bretagne (1870-1930), 26 June - 27 September 1999. Provenance: Christies, London, 20th century British & Irish Art Day Sale, 24 May 2012, lot 168. The Irish modernist painter May Guinness (1863-1955) was a friend and teacher of both Evie Hone and Mainie Jellet, and herself studied with the French cubist painter André Lhote between 1922 and 1925. She had first visited the Newlyn Art Colony in 1894 with fellow artist Mildred Anne Butler, where she studied under Norman Garstin. Her work was exhibited at St. Steven's Green Gallery in 1922, at the Irish Exhibition of Living Art, and at Victor Waddington Gallery in Dublin. In the catalogue introduction to the May Guinness Memorial Exhibition, held at Dawson Gallery, Dublin, in 1956, James White described the artist as 'The first of her race to paint her way into the heart and spirit of the new movement of the 20th century'. (1)
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