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STELLA STEYN (1907 - 1987)
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Title: Still Life - Potted Azaleas
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Unsigned
Provenance: The Artist's Studio Sale, Thomson Roddick and Medcalf; Private Collection
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Lot Description: Stella Steyn (1907–1987), Still Life - Potted Azaleas, oil on canvas, A delicate and expressive still life depicting a flowering azalea plant in a terracotta pot, rendered in Steyn’s recognisable painterly style. The composition is infused with light and a gentle palette of pinks, greens, and blues, capturing both botanical vitality and a calm domestic atmosphere. Presented in a wide gilt frame with soft patina.
Image: 54.5 x 44.5 cm.
Framed: 68.5 x 58.5 cm. PICTURES AND PRINTS Tuesday 16th September 2025 18:41:40
Biography
STELLA STEYN (1907 - 1987)
Stella Steyn was a modernist Irish painter known for her still lifes, interiors, and figure studies. She studied at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art and later in Paris, where she encountered artists such as James Joyce and Samuel Beckett. Influenced by both French modernism and German expressionism, her work is noted for its lyricism, expressive brushwork, and restrained palette. Her paintings are held in the collections of the Hugh Lane Gallery, IMMA, and the Crawford Art Gallery.
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Title: Still Life - Potted Azaleas
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Unsigned
Provenance: The Artist's Studio Sale, Thomson Roddick and Medcalf; Private Collection
Framed
Lot Description: Stella Steyn (1907–1987), Still Life - Potted Azaleas, oil on canvas, A delicate and expressive still life depicting a flowering azalea plant in a terracotta pot, rendered in Steyn’s recognisable painterly style. The composition is infused with light and a gentle palette of pinks, greens, and blues, capturing both botanical vitality and a calm domestic atmosphere. Presented in a wide gilt frame with soft patina.
Image: 54.5 x 44.5 cm.
Framed: 68.5 x 58.5 cm. PICTURES AND PRINTS Tuesday 16th September 2025 18:41:40
Biography
STELLA STEYN (1907 - 1987)
Stella Steyn was a modernist Irish painter known for her still lifes, interiors, and figure studies. She studied at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art and later in Paris, where she encountered artists such as James Joyce and Samuel Beckett. Influenced by both French modernism and German expressionism, her work is noted for its lyricism, expressive brushwork, and restrained palette. Her paintings are held in the collections of the Hugh Lane Gallery, IMMA, and the Crawford Art Gallery.
IMPORTANT IRISH & INTERNATIONAL ART 16th September
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Lots: 1-263
Venue Address
The Square
Durrow
Co. Laois
R32 FN88
Ireland
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Sheppard’s are pleased to present this auction of Important Irish Art. The sale includes major works of art by Daniel O’Neill, Willliam Ashford, Frank McKelvey, Grace Henry, Sean Keating, Sean McSweeney, James Humbert Craig, Sir William Orpen, Gerard Dillon, Augustus Burke, Harry Kernoff, Paul Sandby, John Henry Foley, Peter Curling, Graham Knuttel, Donald Teskey, Jean Dufy, John Behan, Rory Breslin, Siobhan Bulfin and many more.
