‘A Blind Alley’: The Cessation of Paul Egestorff’s Artistic Career

Nicola Carroll
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2006
BA

Subject: Painting and Sculpture
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

This dissertation presents an investigation of the reasons behind the cessation of Paul Egestorff’s artistic career. The author considers Egestorff’s training under Mainie Jellett and examines the extent to which his work can be said to have progressed in style and subject matter from her teaching. His exhibitions with the Royal Hibernian Academy, Water Colour Society of Ireland, Irish Exhibition of Living Art and the White Stag Group are discussed. Particular attention is paid to the artist’s one-man show at the Grafton Gallery in 1949 with a view to assessing the relevance of the critical reception of the exhibition as the catalyst for the artist’s decision to cease painting. The author also considers the resurrgence and reassesment of Egestorff’s work in the 1990’s. The dissertation icludes extensive appendices of primary source material, such as exhibition histories, critical reviews, original catalogues

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‘A Blind Alley’: The Cessation of Paul Egestorff’s Artistic Career