FINE JEWELLERY, WATCHES, SILVER & COINS 10th December 2025 at 12pm

12 S P O T L I G H T O N A R T I S T Nano Reid ( 1 9 0 0 - 1 9 8 1 ) In so far as it is concerned with truth that goes beyond appearance and form, ar t is transcendental. The consciousness of this is often a snare for the painter who is led by a false preoccupation with some literary or intellectual conception of reality into a time-conscious literary form. Nano Reid realised with the instinct of a painter that for her the whole truth existed in the head, the body, the structure of life: it lay there revealed in the form, the line, a timeless and profound reality. Patrick Swift on Nano Reid. A specialist in figurative, landscape and por trait painting Reid is known for her playful perspective and abstract views. Her technique, inspired in her early career by expressionism and cubism, includes sweeping brushstrokes, a distorted subject and an ear thy somewhat muted colour palette. She was par ticularly drawn to depicting simple and rather flat segmented compositions when it came to her landscape paintings. Greatly inspired by early carvings of the Boyne Valley in her home town of Drogheda her work celebrates ancient Ireland and its rich historical and mythological past. Studying under Harry Clarke and Sean Keating, Reid trained at the Metropolitan School of Ar t, Dublin. Subsequently she enrolled at the Académie de la Grande Chaumiére and before returning to Ireland in 1929 she also studied in London under Bernard Meninsky. Once back home her work was regularly exhibited at the Dawson Gallery and the RHA. LIVE AUCTION OF FINE JEWELLERY, WATCHES, SILVER & COINS • WEDNESDAY, 10th DEC 2025 AT 12PM