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Mary Swanzy, 1882–1978

The Melee, c. 1945

The Melee is a c. 1945 work by Mary Swanzy.

MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions Unframed, 70.5 x 55.8 cm
Credit LineIMMA Collection: Donated by the Friends of the National Collections of Ireland, 2021
Item NumberIMMA.4367
Copyright © The Artist's Estate
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Mary Swanzy, The Melee, 1940, Oil on canvas, Unframed, 70.5 x 55.8 cm, Collection Irish Museum of Modern Art, Donated by the Friends of the National Collections of Ireland, 2021

For copyright information, please contact the IMMA Collections team: [email protected].

About the Artist

Mary Swanzy, 1882–1978

Mary Swanzy was born in Dublin. She spent periods in Paris before the first World War and from 1920, she travelled through Eastern Europe and the Balkans and then to Hawaii and Samoa. Best known for her Cubist and Futurist paintings, Swanzy exhibited regularly at the Paris Salon des Indépendants and the Beaux Arts. By 1946 she was included in exhibitions with Chagall, William Scott and Henry Moore. The first major retrospective of Swanzy’s work was held in IMMA in 2018.

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