5 Jun - 31Aug 2008
(courtesy National Gallery of Ireland )
Women’s Dress in 19th- and 20th-Century Painting
The exhibition gathers together paintings spanning one hundred and fifty years, and illustrates the development of fashionable dress from the early 1800s, through Victorian and Edwardian modes and wartime fashions to those of the 1950s and 1960s.
Followers of Fashion features works by the Irish artists Dermod O’Brien, John Lavery, Seán O’Sullivan, Patrick Tuohy and Leo Whelan in addition to paintings by British, French, Belgian, Swiss and Viennese artists.
Several of the women depicted were also creative in their own right, including a couturier (Sybil Connolly); a poet (Gwladys McCabe); an actress (Eliza O’Neill); a novelist (Julia Kavanagh); a soprano, music patron and biographer (Dorothy Mayer) and a painter, style icon and muse (Hazel Lavery).
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