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The two young women who blazed a trail for modernism in Ireland

The unique vision of Evie Hone and Mainie Jellett came from a fascinating mix of influences: Dublin Protestantism, Celtic art, Sickert and Parisian abstraction

Melanie McDonagh Melanie McDonagh
‘A Three-fold Screen’ by Mainie Jellett NATIONAL GALLERY OF IRELAND
EXPLORE THE ISSUE 03 May 2025
issue 03 May 2025
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  • Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone. The Art of Friendship

    National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, until 10 August

In 1921, the sternly abstract cubist Albert Gleizes opened the door of his Parisian apartment to two young women in their twenties, the Irish artists Evie Hone and Mainie Jellett. They explained that they wanted him to teach them his method of ‘extreme cubism’. He wasn’t sure that he had a method, nor whether it was teachable.

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