£1,875
Hints on Household Taste : Paul Reeves | 700
Auction: 28 June 2022 at 11:00 BST
appliqué fabric mosaic panel, mixed fabrics and painted silk, with applied signature lower right MARY IRELAND, artist’s inscriptions verso FABRIC MOSAIC PANEL BY MARY IRELAND/ APRIL 1935, original frame
Note: Bears further artist’s inscription verso “Exhibited Walker’s Gallery, June/ 35. Subsequently used by Gaumont British in their film of me (G.B. Maguire ’47).
The background is modern Japanese (about 50 years old) and the kimono antique Chinese Peking stitch – M.I.”