Sine Mackinnon
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paintings of Paris and of Provence Art Work
| Name: |
Sine Mackinnon |
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Female |
| Place of Birth: |
County Down, Ireland |
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Irish |
| Birth: |
1901 |
| Death: |
1996 |
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Quick Facts
| Known For: |
paintings of Paris and of Provence |
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Oil on canvas |
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| Fine Art Profession(s): |
Painter
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Biography
Sine MacKinnon was born in County Down, Northern Ireland. She studied at the Slade in the late 1910s and early 1920s where she won prizes for painting, drawing and anatomy, and a scholarship. She then went to Paris, reportedly encouraged by her mother, where she had some further training at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Her 1928 submission to the Society of Women Artists, a painting of a wharf near London Bridge, was sent from her address on the boulevard Raspail, Montparnasse.
MacKinnon exhibited at the Paris Salons and in London. Her first solo exhibition was held at the Goupil Gallery in 1928, and she showed at the Redfern and Lefevre galleries, and with the New English Art Club and the London Group. At a joint exhibition with Stephen Bone, husband of her friend Mary Adshead, at the Fine Art Society in 1929, she showed paintings of Connemara in Ireland.
For the most part, MacKinnon painted scenic views, landscapes and townscapes seen during her travels in Greece, Portugal and in France, where she spent most of her life. But there was another side to her work. A painting reproduced in the Studio in 1945, then on show at the Lefevre galleries, shows a blasted landscape, with a crater full of water, tangles of barbed wire and tree stumps. It clearly refers to the war, and also has a strange, dream-like Surrealist atmosphere. The Tate Collection's oil Farm Buildings in Provence (1934), with its parched uninhabited landscape, blank windows, leafless trees with twisted branches and intense blue sky, has a similar unsettling edge. |
Samples of Work
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