Lot 14: Margaret Clarke, R.H.A. (1888-1961)

Reclining Nude
signed 'MARGARET CLARK' (upper right) and inscribed 'Margaret Crilley/nude reclining/drawn from life' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
33 x 39 in. (83.8 x 99 cm.)

Margaret Crilley arrived in Dublin in 1905 to study under Orpen at the Metropolitan School of Art, where she became Orpen's student assistant. In 1914 she married the stained-glass artist Harry Clarke (1889-1931). She continued to paint and exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy for nearly fifty years.

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